Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp ...

"Atmospheric rivers" are large-scale extreme weather systems that are making headlines more frequently. When viewed in satellite images, they appear just as described—like rivers in the sky. Though ...

Spending the night on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where the sun never sets and the ice never stops moving, is an adventure ...

Greenland’s summer sledding season features two completed guided crossings and one independent team still on the ice. All ...

For the first time on record, rain fell at the summit of Greenland ice sheet. Last weekend, temperatures at Greenland’s highest point rose above freezing for the first time this decade. That fueled an ...

New details about the mysterious disappearance of Konrad 'Koni' Steffen, a pioneering climate scientist, who vanished on Greenland's melting ice sheet, raising urgent questions about climate change's ...

An article published in Nature Geoscience on July 30th, 2025 explores an event that happened in 2014 but was only recently discovered thanks to archives of satellite images. The Greenland Ice Sheet ...

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

Characterizing weather extremes from the past to add context to future impacts "Atmospheric rivers" are large-scale extreme ...

Scientific American podcast Science Quickly interviewed Jason Briner on what it’s like to live and work on the Greenland ice sheet. Briner is one of the leaders of Project GreenDrill, which involves ...

Konrad "Koni" Steffen was in his favorite place on Earth when he disappeared in August 2020. At 68, the pioneering scientist — who first sounded the alarm on how Greenland was raising sea levels ...