As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in ...

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

With the sun lower in the sky in late October, long shadows exaggerate ridgelines and valleys, making it easier to see the ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

President Donald Trump's insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland "whether they like it or not" is just the latest ...

Prudhoe Ice Dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, ...

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

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

World War II put Greenland on the map strategically for the U.S. military. In spring 1941, Denmark’s ambassador signed a treaty giving the U.S. military access to Greenland to help protect the island ...

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

New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...

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