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

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

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

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

Using satellite data, scientists examined the changing states of polar ice and drafted velocity maps that revealed a dramatic ...

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...

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

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