Melting ice sheets open up land and sea that were previously inaccessible, presenting new — albeit dangerous — opportunities.

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

Seismic imaging detects subglacial sediments up to 650 feet thick, letting glaciers slide faster over soft beds than rock and ...

Recent scientific studies have revealed that a portion of Greenland's vast ice sheet completely disappeared during a ...

The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate ...

The fight for Arctic dominance accelerates as Trump bids for Greenland against Russia's icebreaker-controlled Northern Sea ...

An ice dome in northern Greenland once melted completely at temperatures the region could experience again this century, a finding that will begin to paint a more accurate picture of how fast the ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end ...

As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...