New satellite images show the extreme melting that has taken place on the critical Greenland ice sheet, according to researchers. The sheet is a mass of glacial land ice and is an integral part of ...

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

Greenland has large deposits of rare earth minerals along its coasts, but these are also geologically hazardous regions. Alex Hibbert/The Image Bank via Getty Images ...

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone image ... Greenland Ice Sheet. The darkness of the bare ice motivated researchers to investigate how much of it was exposed during the summer using a ...

Eqip Sermia, like many coastal glaciers in Greenland, has retreated in the ... much climate change is influencing large-scale glacial melting.

Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated ... A major analysis of historic satellite images, published last year by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Leeds, showed that the autonomous Danish ...