Researchers from the Ohio State and Cornell universities have recently found underneath Greenland ice sheet two subglacial lakes that may accelerate the melting rate of the ice caps in the area. Scientists reported that one of the lakes was suddenly dried away in just a few weeks, while the other lake emptied twice since 2012. The first lake left behind a mile-wide subsurface crater. Prof Ian … [Read more...]
Study Solves Mystery of Missing Water from Greenland Ice Sheet
A new study may have solved the mystery involving the sudden vanishing of the water resulted from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. UCLA scientists found that about a 25 percent of the water does not reach the global ocean. Instead it seems to linger in gigantic aquifers inside the ice. The study was published on Monday in the journal Proceedings. The authors explained that they based … [Read more...]