What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

While researchers lose sleep over the rapidly melting ice sheets in the poles, studies suggest it is how history is repeating ...

At times parts have gotten warmer, even into the 80s, but for the most part, Greenland is a frigid ice sheet more than a mile ... the white-hot core of the Earth. It offers a resource, geothermal ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into ...

The project, which involved carving a network of tunnels through Greenland’s ice sheet and was powered by a small nuclear ... In the 1960s, scientists extracted an ice core there, a frozen soil sample ...

Ice-penetrating radar recently captured an image of a frozen town in Greenland. In April 2024 ... "It's sort of like an ultrasound for ice sheets, where we're mapping out the bottom of the ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

The same would have been true during the Roman era, says McConnell. Ice in the core barrel while drilling on the Greenland ice sheet (Credit: Joseph McConnell) To reach this conclusion, the ...

It is at the core of American air and missile defense ... and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” Greenland’s vast ice sheets and glaciers are quickly retreating as the Earth ...

researchers turned to ice core samples taken from Greenland and Russia. For decades, scientists have been using large drills to penetrate Arctic ice sheets and extract columns of ice up to 11,000 ...