Greenland has large deposits of rare earth minerals along its coasts, but these are also geologically hazardous regions. Alex Hibbert/The Image Bank via Getty Images That’s imprudent, because the ...

Discover why Greenland has become central to global geopolitics and the economy. This video explores Greenland’s unique ...

Konrad "Koni" Steffen was in his favorite place on Earth when he disappeared in August 2020. At 68, the pioneering scientist — who first sounded the alarm on how Greenland was raising sea levels ...

Hidden beneath the pristine white surface of Antarctica and Greenland lies an invisible crisis. While most people imagine ice ...

Most people probably think of glaciers as massive blocks of white ice. But many glaciers have dark patches because of the growth of algae, which can survive on the surface of the ice. These dark ...

A landslide in Greenland caused a giant wave and a mysterious 92-second seismic hum that traveled around the planet for nine ...

To say the 2016 Greenland melt season is off to the races is an understatement. Warm, wet conditions rapidly kicked off the melt season this weekend, more than a month-and-a-half ahead of schedule. It ...

A pair of NASA satellite images taken just four days apart tells a potentially worrying story of melting ice in the polar summer. The first, snapped from orbit on July 8, shows about 40 percent of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Paul Bierman, University of Vermont (THE CONVERSATION) Since Donald Trump regained the ...