Greenland

In a region known as Peary Land at the northern tip of Greenland, researchers uncovered an ancient ecosystem containing two-million-year-old DNA—the world's oldest known thus far. The area is now nothing but a polar desert. However, it once was home...

Glaciologists who study the seasonal growth and loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet have come to the startling conclusion that even if we stopped burning fossil fuels completely today, it would still lose enough mass on its own to...

A new study exploring the icy shell of Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, finds the frigid satellite shares striking similarities with Greenland. Evidence of the shallow pools—not far beneath the frozen surface of Europa—emerged when scientists noticed that giant...

New data published by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service on Monday shows that the last seven years were the warmest on record for the planet. The analysis, which reviewed global temperatures and other contributing factors, determined that 2021...

A scientific study published on Tuesday predicts that rainfall will be normal in the Arctic for the next four to five decades. Rain will be so normal that it will actually be more frequent than snowfall by 2060-2070. This environmental...

A two-minute drone video shot in Greenland by a Greek couple has won numerous awards, including first prize in the drone video category of the Siena International Photo awards. The video shows aerial shots of the second largest Greenland settlement,...

It rained on the summit of Greenland for the first time in the ice sheet's history. The rainfall is a shocking harbinger of global warming and the devastating melting occurring at the Arctic Ocean's ice sheets. Climate scientist and Brown...