Greenland, which has been prominently in the news in recent days, hosts a vast ice sheet. If it melts, it will become one of ...

Seven thousand years ago, a major section of Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared entirely. New research confirms it will happen ...

As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in the Arctic but the territory's vast underground resources. While the ...

A new study has revealed that the Greenland ice sheet is melting at an increasingly faster rate due to huge underwater waves that churn up warm seawater. A GreenFjord project research team unveiled ...

Greenland has shifted from a remote curiosity on the map to a frontline laboratory for understanding how fast the planet is ...

Sediment layers slow down drilling and create hazardous conditions when glaciers collapse, making it extremely difficult to ...

Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subglacial flood in Greenland burst upward through tens of meters of ice, pushing up blocks the size of five-story buildings and ...

If you have eaten ice cream, which you probably have, then you would know how it melts. It doesn’t crack all of a sudden and tumble down. It melts slowly, softening at first and then dribbling down ...

Dominik Gräff, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in Earth and space sciences (pictured in the center), and two crew members load the fiber optic cable, spooled around a large drum, ...