With the sun lower in the sky in late October, long shadows exaggerate ridgelines and valleys, making it easier to see the ...

New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...

Scientists are no longer guessing how fast the great ice sheets are sliding toward the sea. With dense satellite coverage and ...

Core samples from under Greenland's Prudhoe Dome ice sheet suggest the region is highly sensitive to the temperatures of our ...

The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate ...

The study shows that the Prudhoe Dome ice cap, located in northwest Greenland, completely melted around 7,000 years ago. This ...

As the world warms, the ice Greenland is losing is reshaping sea levels, geopolitics, and global climate systems.

Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved ...

In the Arctic, the vast island of Greenland is almost 80% covered by an ice sheet, the second-largest mass of ice on our ...