The first study from GreenDrill—a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath ...

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 many, the sight of vast ice caps at Earth’s poles seems like an unshakable feature of our planet. Yet, a new study ...

Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved ...

Greenland is home to massive ice sheets that are devoid of animals, and humans rarely venture to these harsh and inhospitable environments. Hardy microbes have managed to find a home in nearly every ...

Since 1979, Arctic ice has shrunk by 1.35 million square miles, a new JPL study found ice loss in Greenland is far worse than previously thought and Antarctic ice is now at the lowest level since ...

On April 8, 2011, IceBridge flew a mission to coastal areas in southwest Greenland. Mountains and an open-water fjord surround one of the mission’s targets, a small ice cap called Sukkertoppen Isflade ...

If you thumbed past the "Polar Express" article in the Dec. 24 issue of the New Yorker magazine, you're forgiven. At 20 pages long, it was more than just a casual read. But the subtitle should give ...