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 collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Melting ice sheet. About 125,000 years ago, when Earth was warmer than preindustrial levels, Greenland was covered by a significantly smaller ice sheet, and the sea level was as much as 19 feet higher ...

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, ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the northern hemisphere. The ice sheet has already lost over a trillion tonnes ...

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 ...

Greenland ice melt will raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study says 05:06. Greenland has melted before, and as the climate warms, it will melt again — this time leading to what scientists warn ...

On top of this long-running process, Greenland is now losing ice due to modern-day climate change. The Greenland Ice Sheet is shedding approximately 262 gigatons of ice each year.

Greenland is 3,000 miles north of Charleston, but what's happening in this icy wonderland will largely determine the Lowcountry's fate. Its rapidly melting ice is sending torrents of freshwater into ...

Greenland’s northern ice shelves have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978, new research finds. Skip to main content. SECURITY. POLITICS. THE BIG STORY. BUSINESS. SCIENCE.

Greenland’s floating ice platforms — which hold back trillions of tons of ice that could cause sea level rise — are in stark decline, according to a new study.

The ice core was collected during a secret mission in the 1960s, when the U.S. Army drilled through more than 4,500 feet of ice at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland.