Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.

Caption Glaciologist Alun Hubbard holds up part of a 15-meter-long ice core, collected in southeastern Greenland to study how atmospheric rivers impact the Greenland Ice Sheet. The visible divide ...

It's also much colder. About 80% of Greenland's 836,330 square miles are buried in snow and ice. An enormous national park, the world's largest, covers much of the northeast. The island has long ...

High over the frozen surface of Greenland, a new tool is rewriting what scientists know about how water moves through the ...

Two researchers are inspecting freshly drilled ice cores at the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) camp. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 5 Sept. 14, issue of Science ...

“It’s a rare opportunity to directly link such an event to Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance and dynamics.” The ice core section revealed that the atmospheric river had brought 16 ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold ...

Sea ice covers more ... on the west coast of Greenland, as they sought to learn about Greenland’s glaciers. But quiet lab scientists these were not. Tama snapped photos aboard a flight with ...

Once upon a time, many imagined Greenland as a magically remote place. Covered in ancient ice, with freezing temperatures all year round and two months of constant, unblinking ‘midnight sun ...

"They just wouldn't grow." A 2016 study of the core suggested that the current Greenland ice sheet was a maximum 1.1 million years old. They also estimated that the loss of the ice at a site ...

Getty Images Greenland's melting ice sheet is threatening local community's way of life (Credit: Getty Images) The rapid melting of the ice is already affecting local communities' way of life.

Rising seas and unpredictable weather threaten Greenland's way of life, but melting permafrost opens doors to raw materials ...