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Image of the Apusiaajik Glacier in Greenland

To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s largest island.Read more

Image of a fjord in Greenland

Scientists with NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission are probing deep below the island’s warming coastal waters to help us better predict the rising seas of the future.Read more

The calving front of Jakobshavn Glacier, center

NASA research shows that Jakobshavn Glacier, which has been Greenland's fastest-flowing and fastest-thinning glacier for the last 20 years, has made an unexpected about-face.Read more

A glacier along the east coast of Greenland is seen out the window of a Gulfstream jet

NASA scientists are mapping the loss of ice in Greenland, part of a cutting-edge effort to understand how warming oceans melt ice sheets — a key factor in improving uncertain forecasts for sea-level rise.Read more

Tracy and Heilprin glaciers in northwest Greenland. The two glaciers flow into a fjord that appears black in this image

A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side into Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, are melting at radically different rates.Read more