Greenland, despite its name, is a notoriously frosty island. Eighty percent of its sprawling land area is covered by a thick sheet of ice. The capital city, Nuuk, near its southern tip ...

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 ...

Even given the rapid loss of Greenland’s 650,000-square-mile ice sheet, though, it would take a long while to lose it all — it’s 1.4 miles thick on ... help it wean off the subsidies it ...

The Greenland ice sheet contains about 8% of the planet’s freshwater, and its meltwater could contribute significantly to rising sea levels, changing ocean circulation and ecosystems worldwide. The ...

During World War II, dozens of U.S. military pilots, disoriented by thick fog and running out of fuel, crashed onto the ice sheet. An iceberg from Greenland sunk the Titanic in 1912, and 46 years ...

Once upon a time, many imagined Greenland as a magically remote place. Covered in ancient ice, with freezing temperatures ... indigenous people were forced off their lands, many unfairly removed ...

The Greenland ice sheet contains about 8% of the planet’s freshwater, and its meltwater could contribute significantly to rising sea levels, changing ocean circulation and ecosystems worldwide. The ...

Even given the rapid loss of Greenland’s 650,000-square-mile ice sheet, though, it would take a long while to lose it all—it’s 1.4 miles thick on ... help it wean off the subsidies it ...

Unsplash+ Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a semi-autonomous territory owned by Denmark, with 80 percent of its land covered in thick ice and the remaining home to just 56,000 people ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING.

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ... of ice loss comes from large ice chunks breaking off from glaciers ...