As the frozen parts of our planet face rapid and unprecedented change, NSIDC has been sharing how and why its key features are changing.

A new international study has confirmed that glaciers around the world are melting at an alarming rate, with ice loss ...

Greenland sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and is 80% covered by an ice sheet. The autonomous territory has some 56,000 residents, most of them Indigenous Inuit people. Greenland’s ...

As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Greenland ice sheet, covering over 1.7 million km 2, is losing mass at an accelerating rate, with recent losses averaging 30 million tonnes per hour.A ...

The team’s research was published in The Cryosphere. Greenland’s ice sheet is one of two on Earth, the other spanning Antarctica. Combined, the two ice sheets contain more than 68% of Earth ...

Since Donald Trump regained the presidency, he has coveted Greenland. Trump has insisted that the U.S. will control the ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low ...

Tom Chudley received funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of ...