A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Greenland sharks live for centuries with slow heartbeats and metabolism. Scientists study their longevity secrets.

An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, a Danish ice-core climatologist, first came to the Greenland ice sheet in 1981. Back then, “no one was talking about global warming,” she says.

Camp Century was built by the U.S. within the ice sheet in 1959, according to the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES).

A NASA team found signs of the remnants of Camp Century, which shows the extent of Washington’s longtime involvement in the Arctic island.

The U.S. Nuclear Base Hidden Under Greenland’s Ice for Decades Rediscovered Camp Century reveals the extent of Washington’s longtime involvement in the Arctic island ...

Named Camp Century because it was initially intended to be located 100 miles from the Greenland ice cap, the site was plagued by harsh winter conditions, including winds as high as 125 miles per ...

Though Camp Century now resides under nearly 100 feet of snow and ice, researchers took inventory of what was left behind and found nearly 136 acres of waste — about the size of 100 football fields. A ...