Contribution to Sea Level Rise The ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica play a pivotal role in global sea level changes.

Following the March 11 parliamentary elections, voters indicated that they wanted to remain in control of the timeline for ...

But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of flawed maps have led to a ...

And it was reasonably good at depicting Europe. But it did that at the expense of places further north and south such as Antarctica, Greenland, Russia, which look far larger in this projection ...

Greenland in this July 26, 2011 photo. Massive ice sheets in western Antarctica and Greenland are melting much faster than scientists figured a quarter century ago. Greenland has lost more than 5 ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS ...

For climate science, Antarctica matters a great deal. For decades, much of the concern about melting ice focused on the Arctic and Greenland, while Antarctica stayed relatively stable. But this is ...

In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin ...

Rather than dismissing President Donald Trump’s musings about the importance of the United States acquiring Greenland as ...

Antarctic cooperation could fall apart entirely. Wrangling over Greenland is just the beginning. Countries that possess resources vital to the transition to renewable energy will also become sites of ...

The team’s research was published in The Cryosphere. Greenland’s ice sheet is one of two on Earth, the other spanning Antarctica. Combined, the two ice sheets contain more than 68% of Earth ...