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 ...

"Without detailed knowledge of ice thickness, it is impossible to know ... will enable the next generation of mapping campaigns in Greenland, Antarctica, and beyond." ...

Entrepreneurs are hauling bergs from the Arctic island, betting there are enough people willing to pay up for an ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

They combined the ice velocity data with ice sheet thickness data from airborne measurements made between 1997 and 2005, covering almost Greenland's entire coast, to calculate the volumes of ice ...

Ice, ironically, defines Greenland. Up to almost two miles thick in places, the ice that envelops the austerely beautiful island determines its ecology, its economy and its culture. What ...

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 ...

University of Vermont researchers analysed soil to prove the presence of an ancient tundra two miles (3.2km) below the Greenland Ice Sheet Greenland looked like the green Alaskan tundra ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...