For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It’s likely that you’ve heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest of your life combined, but geopolitical debates ...

Beneath Greenland’s surface lies an abundance of natural resources, including hydrocarbons and rare earth minerals. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that Greenland holds 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30% of its natural gas reserves.

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of the century.

Major ice loss from Greenland is exposing the island's natural resources, inadvertently making some of the world's largest untapped critical mineral reserves more accessible. Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated island situated between the Arctic and ...

The study shows that the Prudhoe Dome ice cap, located in northwest Greenland, completely melted around 7,000 years ago. This date falls within the Holocene, a warm period that began about 11,000 years ago and continues today.

For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet.

When talking about climate change, sea level rise is often brought up as one of the devastating consequences. Melting glaciers and emaciated polar bears have become infamous images over the decades, symbolizing the effects of global warming. But ice can ...

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. FAST. THE GREENLAND ICE CAP IS NOW THE THE LARGEST ...

The first study from GreenDrill—a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet—has found that the Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone approximately 7,

It’s one of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists today: how vulnerable are the vast ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica to rising temperatures? An unfathomable amount of ice is stored on those two land masses, and as that ice melts and ...