High-speed drones will be put to the test in the extreme Arctic environment as part of a project to assess how quickly glaciers in Greenland are retreating ...

Shrinking glaciers in Greenland have revealed vast new coastlines, reshaping the Arctic landscape and global maps.

"The preservation of glaciers is not only an environmental, economic, and social necessity. It is a matter of survival," said ...

We usually think of NASA scientists as working specifically on projects to be launched into space, but they also carry out ...

Poinar’s work focuses primarily on the Greenland Ice Sheet. One of her studies found that meltwater inside certain deep fissures called crevasses can reach bedrock and find its way to the ocean, ...

Greenland’s rich oil, gas and rare earth mineral reserves and its Arctic location have always been its point of attraction.

In this commentary, the author examines how the U.S. military sees climate change as a threat in itself and a threat ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory To measure the thickness of the ice ... of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet — How satellite data has proven climate change ...

they saw a thickness of just 7.2 feet (2.2 meters). "It’s alluding to the fact that this thicker sea ice north of Greenland is not as sustainable as it once was," Linette Boisvert, the ARCSIX ...

Greenland, which is now an autonomous ... Century drilled the first core of ice that captured the full thickness of the ice sheet — a depth of 4,560 feet (1,390 meters) — and included some ...

"We -- all party leaders -- cannot accept the repeated statements about annexation and control of Greenland," the leaders of Greenland's five parliamentary parties said in a joint statement posted ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "In general, it's become clear the Antarctic ice sheet is thicker than we originally realized," said Peter Fretwell of the British ...