Extreme drilling unearths secrets of Greenland’s ancient ice dome

Left photo: The NSF Ice Drilling Program’s Agile Sub-Ice Geological Drill. Right photo: A core of bedrock and sediment pulled up from 300 feet below the Greenland Ice Sheet near the edge of Prudhoe Dome. Both photos by Jason Briner / University at Buffalo. Article by Michael Franco. New Atlas – January 7, 2026. Source: University at Buffalo.

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They found something startling: the dome completely disappeared 7,000 years ago. And it might do it again. […]

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