An international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. This finding will allow the flowing of the ice sheet and ...

The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...

The site with the earliest signs of lead contamination is located in northeastern Greece ... Previous research – including an ...

Most of the island is covered by the slow-flowing Greenland Ice Sheet that drains towards the coastline through a number of outlet glaciers. Only around 20% of the island is ice-free, consisting ...

Moreover, Greenland straddles two potential shipping routes through the Arctic: the Northwest Passage hugging the northern coastline of North America and the Transpolar Sea Route traversing the middle ...

Donald Trump says Greenland should be part of the US, while Denmark insists it won’t happen. But Greenlanders have dreams of their own: economic independence and freedom from foreign control.

Plans are already underway to station US forces at Finnish bases, in particular at Ivalo and Sodankyla, both of which are located near ... the world market. Greenland’s ice cap, which is melting ...

Greenland’s appeal to the US (and Trump) can be broadly condensed down to two things: defence and minerals. The island has long been a security interest for the US. Located along the shortest route ...

They drilled down almost two miles to extract 2.8-km of ice core, reaching the actual bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The air bubbles trapped inside the ice are “like tiny time capsules ...

At the time, he was mostly met with ridicule, spurred in no small part by Trump himself tweeting an image of his vulgar Trump Tower planted in the serene Greenlandic scene: “I promise not to do this ...