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.

Atmospheric rivers are massive, narrow sections of the atmosphere that can help offset the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet ...

"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 ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

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.

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

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

(NASA via Reuters) Total volume of Antarctic ice, including ice shelves: 27.17 million cu km Total area of Antarctic ice, including ice shelves: 13.63 million sq km Mean thickness of Antarctic ice ...

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 ...