The Arctic saw particularly high temperatures in February, with one area near the North Pole 19.8 F hotter than average.

The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...

Sea Levels Are Rising Sea levels are on the rise, and it's not just a distant concern; it's happening right now. 3 ...

Accelerating Ice Loss Ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica is happening at an alarming pace. In recent decades, scientists ...

Threats of territorial conquest are once again becoming a central part of geopolitics, driven by a new phase of great-power ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, and it's melting rapidly. Climate change is causing more intense atmospheric rivers, which can deliver intense ...

Adaptivity is threatened by global warming and deforestation. The Earth's climate system is highly complex, with its key ...

The lodes of graphite, copper, and other valuable deposits, which the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources says exist ...

Greenland’s population, mostly Inuit, is the size of Olympia’s. Greenlanders have home rule, but sometimes pine for ...

Algae on Greenland’s ice are spreading faster due to climate change. They store nutrients, darken ice, and speed up melting.

Greenland’s Ice Sheet will surely continue its unprecedented melt.  But will the melting ice expose more rock that might push ...

Life along the west coast of Greenland, high above the Arctic Circle, continues much as it has for centuries, with the ...