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Washington Post
5 days ago
- Science
- Washington Post
A remote research station conducts critical science far from civilization
The first time I stepped out of a plane onto the Greenland ice sheet, the cold hit me like nothing I had experienced before. Coming from Colorado, I've learned to enjoy being outdoors in the freezing temperatures of winter, but this was extreme. It was early May 2024 at Summit Station, one of the National Science Foundation's research outposts in Greenland, and the conditions were particularly cold for spring: minus-40 degrees with 20-mph winds, creating a wind chill of a brisk 75 below zero Fahrenheit.


LBCI
11-06-2025
- Science
- LBCI
Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave, scientists say
Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the historic average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday. "The melting rate of the Greenland ice sheet by, from a preliminary analysis, a factor of 17... means the Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level rise is higher than it would have otherwise been without this heatwave," one of the authors of the report, Friederike Otto, told reporters, adding that "without climate change, this would have been impossible". AFP