A Greenland glacier is cracking open in real time

ScienceDaily
Jan 5, 2026, 9:49 pm191 ptsTop
A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts through cracks and vertical ice shafts. These events have accelerated in recent years, creating strange triangular fracture patterns and flooding the glacier’s base with water in just…

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