For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It’s likely that you’ve heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING.

But underneath all that melting ice is something the whole world wants: the rare earth elements that make modern society—and the clean energy revolution—possible. That could soon turn Greenland, which ...

Ice-core science is incredibly important, because it can help us understand how climate changed in the past — and how it might change in the future. It’s also, as the participants in the North ...

For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell ...

At the top of the world on the coast of Greenland, breaking seas from the Arctic Ocean run thousands miles from Norway to Siberia and onto the Gulf of Alaska. Greenland is going through a major ...

Ice cores drilled from southern Greenland have revealed the first evidence of a surprisingly lush forest that existed in the region within the past million years. The findings from an international ...

THE ice cap in the northern hemisphere is melting a lot more rapidly that scientists thought, according to new research published overnight by the Danish National Space Centre. "Until 2004, the ...

If Manhattan floods, it may start here, on an ice field that stretches in frozen silence to every horizon. Global warming is working away at the Greenland ice cap. The frozen interior of the Arctic ...

The arctic island is the largest land ice contributor to rising sea levels. Greenland is known as the largest contributor to rising sea levels but a new study explores how the island's glaciers could ...

Gelu Sulugiuc, is a Reuters correspondent based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the following story, he tells of the dangers and difficulty of reporting the work of ice scientists. By Gelu Sulugiuc Sign up ...