The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

This allowed the U.S. to build bases in Greenland. Even without the -70 degree temperatures and 125-mile-per-hour winds that were possible on the ice shelf, the construction of Camp Century sounds ...

A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said on Monday. The 113 sq km ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

This type of ice shelf was common in the northernmost fjords of the Canadian and Greenland coast, but many have broken apart under warmer conditions. This map of Antarctica shows the location of ...

Almost 98 percent of Greenland is currently covered in ice, but new research suggests ... it was put in a bag on a shelf. We would not have known to check if we didn't already have a project ...

Because ice shelves already float in the ocean ... Specifically, they expect to see ice streams accelerating, more icebergs calving, and ice sheets thinning. On Greenland, and in other areas around ...

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 ...