NASA scientists rediscovered an abandoned U.S. nuclear base that lies entombed beneath at least 100 feet of ice.

Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear ... There are only two ice sheets worldwide today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. They contain more than 99% of the land ice on Earth.

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Why are maps wrong about Greenland ... size as Africa – it’s actually 14 times smaller. Around 80% of Greenland is ice, and per the Central Intelligence Agency, it has an arctic to subarctic ...

Far from being a useless block of ice, Greenland is a vital strategic ... Trump Snr couldn't resist hyping his son's trip. As the map shows, Greenland sits right in the middle of the Arctic ...

"If you divide all of the ice-free areas of Greenland, you can probably fit 200 map sheets of a one to 100,000 scale," Find Kokfelt says. When the geologists did the maths, they realised it would ...

In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp Century, a Cold War U.S. military base while attempting to map the ice sheet. “We were looking for the bed of the ice and ou ...

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The maps show how crevasses changed between 2016 ... where and how fast this is happening across the entirety of the Greenland Ice Sheet. "For the first time, we are able to see significant ...

The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...