Greenland's relatively isolated indigenous culture finds itself increasingly exposed to the world just as Trump pushes to ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland has a message for the rest of the world: We’re waiting for you. “Come visit Greenland,” said ...

An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a mystery, ...

The findings were published March 14 in JGR Atmospheres. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Greenland lost about 55 gigatons of ice and snow between fall 2023 and ...

Greenland’s ice sheet covers 656,000 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers), or about 80% of the island. The ice is over 1.9 miles (3 km) thick in places and if the entire sheet melted ...

Credit: Petrini et al., 2025. Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the northern hemisphere.

Scientists have been trying for decades to uncover the true geology of Greenland, an island one-third the size of Australia and almost entirely concealed under mile-deep ice sheets. For a recent ...

NASA, which has mapped Greenland's ice loss, says the sheet has "rapidly declined in the last several years," prompting the global sea level to rise around 0.03 inches per year.

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