A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...

“2023 was a record wildfire season in Canada, and a lot of the smoke from Canada gets transported over to Greenland,” Khan said. Her team will study how many dark particles the smoke deposited on the ...

Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

With demand for rare earth minerals expected to reach up to seven times current levels by 2040, Greenland’s winning ticket to ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. The NEGIS is how a good deal of that planet-altering flood would enter the sea.

“The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice,” funded by the National Science Foundation and European Research Council, traces a group of scientists studying ice cores pulled from beneath the Greenland Ice ...

In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp Century, a Cold War U.S. military base while attempting to map the ice sheet.

The film examines the history of environmental research tied to Cold War military projects and how early studies predicted the decline of the Greenland Ice Sheet due to carbon dioxide emissions.