At six sites on the ice cap, between 200 and 1,000 meters (660 and 3,280 feet) above sea level, the researchers measured how much of the aluminum poles drilled into the ice remained visible above the ...

Coastal cities from Miami to Mumbai sit on land that would vanish beneath the ocean if Earth’s two largest ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, surrendered all their frozen mass. The combined result, ...

Deep under Greenland's ice, a thin layer of frozen dirt and rock has been holding a secret for thousands of years. Now, a drilling project co-led by the University at Buffalo has brought that secret ...

The clacier section that broke off came off of the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which is roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) long and 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide, the National Geological Survey ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change. The glacier ...

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of strange plume-like structures hidden deep inside the Greenland ice sheet. New research suggests they form through thermal convection—slow, swirling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sediment drilled from beneath Greenland's Prudhoe Dome shows the ice cap vanished about 7,000 years ago, offering new clues about ...