Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...

As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Greenland is on the move, literally. New satellite data is showing that the world’s largest island isn’t just melting under the pressure of climate change. It’s also drifting northwest, reshaping ...

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 ...

For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It’s likely that you’ve heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest ...

Ice, ironically, defines Greenland. Up to almost two miles thick in places, the ice that envelops the austerely beautiful island determines its ecology, its economy and its culture. What scientists ...

ILULISSAT, GREENLAND - JULY 15: Visitors look out at melting icebergs crowding the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 15, 2024 near Ilulissat, Greenland. The Ilulissat Icefjord is approximately 60km long and ...

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, ...

To say the 2016 Greenland melt season is off to the races is an understatement. Warm, wet conditions rapidly kicked off the melt season this weekend, more than a month-and-a-half ahead of schedule. It ...

As Greenland’s ice melts and water flows into the ocean, sea level changes, but in ways that might not be intuitive. Away from the island, sea level is rising about an inch each ...