Latest Sarah Das Stories

Researchers Make First Observations of Surface Meltwater Cutting through the Ice Sheet to Lubricate the BottomResearchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW) have for the first time documented the sudden and complete drainage of a lake of meltwater from the top of the Greenland ice sheet to its base.From those observations, scientists have uncovered a plumbing system for the ice sheet, where meltwater can penetrate thick, cold ice and...