Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the ...

In a new study, my colleagues and I mapped crevasses across the entirety of the Greenland ice sheet in 2016 and 2021. To do this, we used the "ArcticDEM": three-dimensional surface maps of the ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open at an accelerating pace, with crevasses growing larger and deeper due to the effects of climate change. A new study using high-resolution 3D mapping has reveal ...

A significant driver behind the potential US annexation is Greenland’s vast untapped resources, including rare earth minerals, oil, and natural gas. But also, the melting of the polar ice cap – ...

Greenland enjoys perpetual daylight for two months each year. Over 80% of the island is covered by a permanent ice cap 4km thick in places. Global warming is causing this to melt but has also ...

Constructing the trenches at Camp Century, Greenland. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Scientists used radar to map the ... and the ice-bed interface,” as Greene explained. “Without detailed ...

Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated island situated between the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades. The changing environment has ...

New satellite images show the extreme melting that has taken place on the critical Greenland ice sheet, according to researchers. The sheet is a mass of glacial land ice and is an integral part of ...