A 460-mile-long stretch of canyon was discovered underneath Greenland's ice sheet by NASA's Operation IceBridge. It runs from ...

On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

A routine science flight over northern Greenland produced an unexpected image recently. In April 2024, NASA researchers testing a radar system aboard .

Greenland’s vast ice sheet is often framed as a distant symbol of climate change, but the shifts unfolding there are poised to quietly reshape coastlines and communities far from the Arctic. If all of ...

Windblown dust delivers nutrients to algae on Greenland ice, darkening the surface and accelerating melting and sea level ...

During the Cold War, the US secretly built Camp Century under Greenland’s ice, planning to hide 600 nuclear missiles.

Large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible and happening at a rapid rate, and now a new international ...

Greenland, which has been prominently in the news in recent days, hosts a vast ice sheet. If it melts, it will become one of the largest contributors to global sea-level rise. Under a high-emissions ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

In the summer of 1959, a group of American soldiers began carving trenches in the Greenland ice sheet. Those trenches would become the snow-covered tunnels of Camp Century, a secret Arctic research ...

New studies show how algae grows on ice and snow, creating “dark zones” that exacerbate melting in the consequential region.