Approximately 400,000 years ago, some areas of Greenland that are now covered by a thick layer of ice were exposed to fresh ...

NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...

The state of the world's second-largest body of ice is concerning scientists, and rising global temperatures are to blame for its deterioration. A study led by Durham University analyzed 8,000 3D ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new large-scale study of crevasses on the world’s second largest body of ice. Using 3-D ...

Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s geology and its connection to Earth’s formative processes. The new evidence ...

New satellite images show the extreme melting that has taken place on the critical Greenland ice sheet, according to researchers. The sheet is a mass of glacial land ice and is an integral part of ...

The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice. Reading time 2 minutes Much of icy Greenland may soon go the way of the dodo, ...

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater burst through Greenland’s ice sheet, spilling copious amounts of water across its surface. As detailed in a ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of Atlantic Ocean currents that redistributes heat and nutrients between the tropics and the North Atlantic, is one of the planet's ...