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An Enormous Arctic Spiral
Looking south across the southern tip of Greenland, this satellite image shows an enormous cloud vortex spiraling over the northern Atlantic ocean on January 26, 2013. An example of the powerful...
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NASA Scientists Soar Over a Mini Ice Cap
It's quite a long way from Mars, but I can't help but be reminded of the Red Planet's ice-covered north pole when looking at this photo taken by Michael Studinger earlier this month, during a recent...
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Meet GROVER the Rover, Set For Greenland Exploration
How fast is Greenland's ice sheet melting in response to climate change, and how is it recovering? A new NASA rover with the friendly name of GROVER (Greeland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated...
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Massive ‘Grand Canyon’ Found Hidden Beneath Greenland’s Ice
There’s a “Chuck Norris fact” that says Chuck once went skydiving but promised never to do it again, saying one Grand Canyon is enough. But Chuck must have taken another jump millions of years ago.Data...
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Scientists Now Suspect More Sea Level Rise from Greenland’s Glaciers
Greenland's glaciers may contribute more to future sea level rise than once thought, despite earlier reports that their steady seaward advance is a bit slower than expected. This is just more sobering...
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Wow! Epic 4K Timelapse of Aurora Over Iceland and Greenland
Holy Northern Lights, Batman! This new timelapse is just beautiful! Photographer Joe Capra traveled to Greenland and Iceland to shoot 10 nights of the arctic Aurora. Not only was the aurora absolutely...
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NASA Model Shows Greenland’s Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over the Next 1000...
Great news! Humankind’s greatest-ever engineering project is nearing completion. Soon we will have warmed the Earth enough to get rid of all those pesky ice sheets and other frozen areas. The finish...
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There’s A Fire in Greenland… Again. It’s 10 Degrees Hotter Than Normal
As global warming ramps up, expect to see Greenland in the news a lot. That’s because its ice sheet is under threat of melting. But that’s not the only reason. The other reason is fire. We know that...
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It Turns Out That the World’s Oldest Impact Crater Isn’t an Impact Crater
In early 2012, an international research team surveying parts of southwestern Greenland announced that they had discovered the oldest impact crater ever discovered on Earth, estimated at 3.3 billion...
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Greenland’s Ice Sheet is Similar in Many Ways to the Solar System’s Icy...
Many regions on Earth are temperate, nutrient-rich, stable environments where life seems to thrive effortlessly. But not all of Earth. Some parts, like Greenland’s ice sheet, are inhospitable. In our...
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