A daring expedition aims to find eight WWII airmen buried in Greenland. Whitman-Hanson graduate Margo LaPointe helps lead the ...

Usually, the landmass of Greenland is represented as a dense white shape on basically any world map. While this is in fact what you see from space when looking at Greenland, it doesn't do justice to ...

Initiated in 2024, the Planetary Health Check is a comprehensive, science-based global initiative dedicated to measuring and ...

Something strange is happening in Greenland, and it’s pretty concerning. The ice there is being covered by dark patches, and it’s not just regular dirt—this stuff is alive! Scientists have discovered ...

Data from ESA's Cryosat-2 satellite has revealed 85 never-before-seen, active subglacial lakes buried beneath Antarctica's ice — 58% more than were previously known.

Thwaites Glacier rises above the Amundsen Sea in the Antarctic, a towering white cliff abutting cerulean waters. Roughly the ...

In western Siberia, a rare kind of gas explosion is carving deep, near vertical craters in the tundra. Some of these massive ...