The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison.

The world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but ...

Ignored for most of its existence, the huge ice-bound island has been thrust into a geopolitical maelstrom. It’s trying to ...

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them ...

Since Donald Trump regained the presidency, he has coveted Greenland. Trump has insisted that the U.S. will control the ...

The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice.

Glaciers are huge white ice masses that can reflect a lot of sunlight. However, especially where the glaciers are not covered ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

Pigmented algae are well adapted to grow on exposed ice in the Arctic as the snowline recedes, raising concerns of a feedback ...

“Why should we just be taken by another colonizer?” The US already has strong connections with and interest in Greenland. Climate change and the loss of sea ice is opening up new shipping ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference? The allure of ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new large-scale study of crevasses on the world’s second largest body of ice. Using 3-D ...