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 ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far ...

Like the inverse of the mythical butterfly flapping its wings in China, an ice core extracted from Greenland can reveal the rise and fall of societies in European antiquity. A new study took ice cores ...

Huge expanses of ice are melting alarmingly fast, raising new concerns about "catastrophic consequences for humanity," a study published May 20 says. The study focuses on two masses of ice currently ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Greenland has melted before, and as the climate warms, it will melt again — this time leading to what scientists warn could be 20 to 25 feet of sea-level rise. During one of the warm periods within ...

About 80 percent of Greenland is armored in a continuous sheet of ice, three times the area of Texas. But it hasn’t always been that way. At various points in Earth’s past, much of the island was, in ...

Entrepreneurs are flocking to the Arctic island to harvest its most abundant resource in hopes there are enough people willing to pay a premium for vodka made with glacial meltwater or a cocktail ...

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