Every day, massive chunks of ancient ice the size of skyscrapers crash into the Arctic Ocean from Greenland's coastline. The sounds echo across vast fjords while scientists track the transformation of ...

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

The Greenland Ice Sheet — the second largest ice sheet on Earth — has been melting at its fastest rate in 12,000 years due to rising surface temperatures caused by man-made climate change, according ...

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 ...

Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday. Zombie or doomed ice is ...

Konrad "Koni" Steffen was in his favorite place on Earth when he disappeared in August 2020. At 68, the pioneering scientist — who first sounded the alarm on how Greenland was raising sea levels ...

Researchers in Greenland used a 10-kilometer fiber-optic cable to track how iceberg calving stirs up warm seawater. The resulting surface tsunamis and massive hidden underwater waves intensify melting ...