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 ...

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 ...

Approximately 400,000 years ago, some areas of Greenland that are now covered by a thick layer of ice were exposed to fresh air and sunlight. Today, the Greenland Ice Sheet covers most of the land ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A team of researchers from Western Washington University (WWU) spent the past week in Greenland, conducting climate research focused on the Greenland ice sheet, the world’s second ...

The Arctic is fast becoming the world's newest geopolitical battleground as melting ice exposes vast reserves of strategic minerals. Nations including the US, Russia, Canada and key European players ...

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

Nasa scans reveal abandoned city buried under ice in Greenland - Method can help scientists measure ice sheet thickness in ...

Few places are home to as many superlative natural features and contrasts as Greenland, an island 80 percent covered in ice, marked by near-pristine wilderness with a silence so absolute it feels ...