The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

The rugged, icy landscape means Greenland’s towns aren’t connected to each other by road, making air and sea the main modes of travel. With an ice sheet second only to Antarctica’s in size ...

A new study found on Wednesday that part of Greenland’s ice sheet is thinning further inland than previously believed, which is likely to lead to a greater rise in sea levels by the end of this ...

The sample extended so deep that it reached the bedrock beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The core, nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end to end or six and a half times taller than the Empire ...

In their study published in the journal Nature, the team analyzed ice core samples taken from a site near the shelf's edge. The editors at Nature have also published a Research Briefing ...

Deep below the thick ice of Greenland lies a labyrinth of tunnels that were once thought to be the safest place on Earth in case of a war. First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw ...

The project, which involved carving a network of tunnels through Greenland’s ice sheet and was powered by a small nuclear reactor ... In the 1960s, scientists extracted an ice core there, a frozen ...