Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

Both satellites monitor changes in the thickness of Greenland's ice sheet. Comparing the data showed that the measurements of both satellites differed by only 3%, confirming their high accuracy ...

A fleet of high-speed drones is set to take flight over the Arctic for the first time next month in a bold effort to revolutionize how scientists monitor Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet. Drones ...

I am a geoscientist who studies the environmental history of Greenland and its ice sheet, including natural hazards and climate change. That knowledge is essential for understanding the risks that ...

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This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...

This is what’s happening as the Greenland Ice Sheet shrinks.” The more than 656,000-mile sheet — an area about three times the size of Texas — is nearly two miles thick, and contains about ...

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.

The question is whether mining companies can overcome the headaches inherent in extracting rare earths from Greenland’s ice-free yet still frigid edges. An outfit would have to ship in all their ...

U.S. and Norwegian special operations forces test ice thickness to establish a landing ... Army engineers test the properties of snow on Greenland’s ice sheet in 1955, a critical determinant ...

If the entire Greenland ice sheet were to melt over ... To do this, the most accurate statements possible must be made about ice thickness in order to be able to predict glacier behavior and ...