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Strong winds across the lakes are pushing ice, creating jagged ridges along the shoreline and contributing to shifting ice sheets on the water.
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Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Trying to tap the ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of Greenland, for minerals is unappealing, given that all the necessary supplies would need to be brought inland by helicopter and there are kilometers of ice overlaying parts of the rock.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
At 836,000 square miles, Greenland is nearly 80 percent ice, a frozen leaf dangling in the far North Atlantic with dramatic, ragged edges, impossibly sheer cliffs that dwarf even El Capitan, and a massive ice sheet as thick as 11,000 feet.
—Tim Neville, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
One project in Greenland is creating an autonomous mobile observatory powered by the sun, to be deployed on remote parts of the island’s ice sheet.
—Lara Williams, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026
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Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Trying to tap the ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of Greenland, for minerals is unappealing, given that all the necessary supplies would need to be brought inland by helicopter and there are kilometers of ice overlaying parts of the rock.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
At 836,000 square miles, Greenland is nearly 80 percent ice, a frozen leaf dangling in the far North Atlantic with dramatic, ragged edges, impossibly sheer cliffs that dwarf even El Capitan, and a massive ice sheet as thick as 11,000 feet.
—Tim Neville, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
One project in Greenland is creating an autonomous mobile observatory powered by the sun, to be deployed on remote parts of the island’s ice sheet.
—Lara Williams, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Ice sheet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20sheet. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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