"Under its weight, the glacier slides across its bed and deforms, but as it thins it finds it more difficult to slide and deform; it's kind of intuitive. "But until now there had been some debate ...

The Petermann Glacier slides toward the sea along the northwestern coast of Greenland, terminating in a giant floating ice tongue. Like other glaciers that end in the ocean, Petermann periodically ...

We believe only a few inches of water is needed to make them slide faster across the ground. Q: Is the additional fresh meltwater from the accelerated melting of the Jakobshavn glacier enough to ...