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

Greenland’s massive cap of ice, containing enough fresh water to raise sea levels by 23 feet, is in serious trouble. Between 2002 and 2023, Greenland lost 270 billion tons of frozen water each ...

Long-lost samples of twigs and rocks show that Greenland once lost a tremendous amount of ice under climate conditions very much like the ones humans have created and are currently living in ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have obtained the first historical record of plastic pollution in ...

The plan to station nuclear missiles under Greenland’s ice was inspired by Bernt Balchen, a Norwegian-born U.S. Army colonel who in the 1930s had spearheaded polar aviation and who had pointed ...

But in 2019, while rinsing the sediment from the bottom of a core from Camp Century, a 1960s ice sheet boring site near the perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet, he saw familiar floating black flecks.

Greenland's location between the U.S., Russia and Europe makes it strategic for both economic and defense purposes, especially as melting sea ice has opened up new shipping routes through the Arctic.

The longest core of rock ever extracted from beneath Greenland’s thick ice could hold clues about how quickly the island’s frozen covering will melt as the planet warms. Preliminary analysis ...

The location of the ice core at the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet records emissions from sources over a wide swath of North America, Europe and surrounding oceans.

Ice sheet modeling shows the location where the ice core was taken could have only been free of ice if other large parts of Greenland were also ice-free at the same time.

Core samples from Greenland's seabed provide first historical overview of plastic pollution By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the ...

Sediments recovered from the base of the Camp Century ice core show that northwestern Greenland was ice-free during a period of history known to have exhibited some of the lowest global ice ...