Huge Ice Dome in Greenland Vanished 7,000 Years Ago — Melting at Temperatures We're Racing Toward Today

Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome Melted 7,000 Years Ago — And Could Again by 2100

Learn more about the history of Greenland's Prudhoe Dome and how rising global temperatures could impact it in the future.

Greenland Ice Cap Vanished 7,000 Years Ago, and It Could Happen Again

Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved in GreenDrill, a project jointly led by the University at Buffalo to recover rock and sediment from beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, report that the Prudhoe Dome ice [...]

Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we're racing toward today

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of the century.

Why scientists are worried about Greenland’s huge Prudhoe ice dome

An ice dome the size of Luxembourg melted around 7,000 years ago. Is history about to repeat itself?

Extreme drilling unearths secrets of Greenland’s ancient ice dome

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.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Greenland, Ice, glacier, Climate Crisis, Warming, University at Buffalo, Columbia University

Greenland's Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone only 7,000 years ago, first GreenDrill study finds

Buffalo NY (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 The first study from GreenDrill - a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet - has found that the Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone approximately 7,000 years ago, much more recently than previously known. Published (Jan. 5) in Nature Geoscience, the findings suggest that this high point on the northwest section