When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ...

This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

A fleet of high-speed drones is set to take flight over the Arctic for the first time next month in a bold effort to ...

High-speed drones will be put to the test in the extreme Arctic environment as part of a project to assess how quickly ...

Say this much, President Trump’s vow to “go as far as we have to” to control Greenland is pernicious, consistent, and ironic. Though he’s obscured his reasons for bringing the world’s largest island ...

Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, potentially jeopardizing hundreds of millions of ...

“We didn’t know what it was at first,” Greene said in a statement released by NASA’s Earth Observatory this week, along with ...

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed measurements of water vapor high above Greenland’s vast ice sheet.

In the late 1940s, Arctic temperatures were warming and the Cold War was heating up. The U.S. military had grown increasingly nervous about a Soviet invasion across the Arctic. It built bases and a ...

Trump isn’t the first American to show an infatuation with Greenland. A University of Michigan researcher focused his studies on the frigid land, leading multiple expeditions across the Arctic ...