We know that the polar region, specifically the ice sheets in Greenland, covers 0.7 million cubic miles and extends over 656,000 square miles, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice.

Attention on Greenland's untapped mineral wealth heightened by frequent declarations by US president Donald Trump that he wants to buy the country.

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

Greenland may be at the center of a political power play, but on the sporting front, its push to join Concacaf could be a ...

Glaciers are huge white ice masses that can reflect a lot of sunlight. However, especially where the glaciers are not covered ...

We may still be able to save ourselves from the worst of the damage the climate change will bring – but we are desperately running out of time.

Whale watching, iceberg treks and almost guaranteed Northern Lights - why wouldn’t you want to visit Greenland? Yet tourism in the country is a relatively young business, and one that the world ...

Every few days, cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza form, according to a Nature Geoscience journal article published this month. In five years, 930 million ...

The research, recently published in Nature, used advanced three-dimensional imaging techniques to conduct the first-ever inventory of crevasses across the entire Greenland Ice Sheet. Using this ...