Seven thousand years ago, a major section of Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared entirely. New research confirms it will happen ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

A technology called synthetic aperture radar (SAR) clears these hurdles by beaming out energy pulses and measuring the amount ...

Key maps show the growing strategic importance of Greenland as Arctic ice melts under global heating ...

History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh ...

While few details of the exact work at Pituffik have been made public, the improvements come during a time of intense focus ...

On a flat map, Greenland looks like a lonely white expanse at the top of the world. On the right projections, it jumps out as ...

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

The world's largest island has its own system of fjords, lakes and black-sand beaches. What to know about the size of the ...

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

Greenland has shifted from a remote curiosity on the map to a frontline laboratory for understanding how fast the planet is ...