In this aerial view taken in 2024, melting icebergs lie in the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland. It sounds like something out of science fiction: In the late 1950s, the US Army carved a tiny “city” ...

In a tunnel 40 feet beneath the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, a Geiger counter screamed. It was 1964, the height of the Cold War. U.S. soldiers in the tunnel, 800 miles from the North Pole, were ...

The study places the recent retreat of peripheral glaciers across Greenland’s diverse climate zones into a century-long ...

New details about the mysterious disappearance of Konrad 'Koni' Steffen, a pioneering climate scientist, who vanished on Greenland's melting ice sheet, raising urgent questions about climate change's ...

Deep below the thick ice of Greenland lies a labyrinth of tunnels that were once thought to be the safest place on Earth in case of a war. First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US ...

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 scientists ...

High over the frozen surface of Greenland, a new tool is rewriting what scientists know about how water moves through the Arctic sky. A drone, equipped with custom instruments, has provided the first ...

Sacramento State professor and award-winning filmmaker Kathy Kasic isn’t shy about getting her climate change documentaries in front of audiences. Kathy Kasic, pictured in Antarctica while filming a ...

Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at UB endures. Faculty members here are still studying the ancient sediments that Langway’s team pulled from nearly a ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A team of researchers from Western Washington University (WWU) spent the past week in Greenland, conducting climate research focused on the Greenland ice sheet, the world’s second ...