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

Greenland has large deposits of rare earth minerals along its coasts, but these are also geologically hazardous regions. Alex Hibbert/The Image Bank via Getty Images That’s imprudent, because the ...

Buried beneath the ice of northwest Greenland, a Cold War outpost once designed for nuclear war planning is reemerging in ...

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 ...

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. Inside a tent ...

When talking about climate change, sea level rise is often brought up as one of the devastating consequences. Melting glaciers and emaciated polar bears have become infamous images over the decades, ...

The arctic island is the largest land ice contributor to rising sea levels. Greenland is known as the largest contributor to rising sea levels but a new study explores how the island's glaciers could ...

For the first time on record, rain fell at the summit of Greenland ice sheet. Last weekend, temperatures at Greenland’s highest point rose above freezing for the first time this decade. That fueled an ...

The Arctic is fast becoming the world's newest geopolitical battleground as melting ice exposes vast reserves of strategic ...

Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday. The ...

A landslide in Greenland caused a giant wave and a mysterious 92-second seismic hum that traveled around the planet for nine ...

This week, researchers reported that weight and health markers may rebound when patients stop using some of the new hormonal ...