If the term “ice stream” sounds like an oxymoron to you, you haven't seen the Jakobshavn. (Pronounced “yah-cobes-hah-ven”.) This glacier on the western coast of Greenland is one of the few things in ...

Satellite images show that the world's fastest moving glacier lost a piece of ice measuring nearly 5 square miles over two days. Scientists say it is one of the most significant calving events on ...

Scientists are studying how the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier in western Greenland is getting smaller and moving faster due to increased melting over the past ten years. This NOVA scienceNOW segment: ...

The glacier that's blamed for producing the iceberg that sunk the Titanic has been pushing much more ice into the ocean over the past two years, according to a new study published Monday. Greenland's ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling, according ...

As scientists continue to warn about melting glaciers in the Antarctic, one key glacier in Greenland is growing again, NASA says. The Jakobshavn Glacier, the fastest flowing and thinning glacier for ...

Like a snake slithering back into its den, Greenland's lengthy Jakobshavn glacier has retreated over 25 miles since the 19th century. And for the last two decades, this warming river of ice has purged ...

The world's fastest glacier broke its own speed record again, quadrupling its summer run to the sea between the 1990s and 2012, a new study finds. In summer 2012, Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier ...

As the world prepares for the most important global climate summit yet in Paris later this month, news from Greenland could add urgency to the negotiations. For another major glacier appears to have ...