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

There are only two ice sheets worldwide today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets ... recorded the height and shape of the ice sheet and the thickness of the floating ice shelves that push ...

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 ...

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

I n April 2024, a team of scientists led by NASA’s Chad Greene embarked on a mission over Greenland to study the ice sheet with advanced radar technology. The goal was to measure ice thickness ...

U.S. and Norwegian special operations forces test ice thickness to establish a landing ... Army engineers test the properties of snow on Greenland’s ice sheet in 1955, a critical determinant ...

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 ...

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