Greenland

The Verde River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in Arizona, winding through what’s known as the Verde Valley before feeding into the Salt River. Agriculturally, the valley is relatively fertile, supporting crops like sweet corn, alfalfa, peaches, and pecans, as well as a small wine industry. Recently, though,…

Ancient predators once thought to be squids are now linked to arrow worms. The discovery highlights unexpectedly advanced features in these early animals. Fossils recently unearthed in North Greenland have provided key evidence to help scientists resolve a 500-million-year-old mystery involving ancient squid-like creatures. These organisms...Read More

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 31, August 2025. SignificanceThe Eoarchean (>3.65 Ga) quartz-pyroxene rock from Akilia, Greenland, represents a key fragment of Earth’s earliest rock record. By integrating novel potassium isotope data with petrological observations, our study identifies a chemical ...Read More

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of Harder Glacier in northern Greenland, where a powerful subglacial flood surged with such force it fractured the ice sheet and meltwater burst through to the surface. (Image credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA) A hidden lake beneath the…

A satellite image of the crater the flood burst from taken on 28 April 2015. (Image credit: CPOM, Lancaster University © DigitalGlobe, Inc. (2015), provided by European Space Imaging.) Scientists have discovered a previously-undetected flood under the Greenland ice sheet that spilled out with such force that it burst through…

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the surface to scour an area nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Greenland's Harder Glacier and the subglacial flood outburst site (right bottom)…

Synopsis Russia moves to get an Arctic territory: Russia increases its presence in Svalbard. This area is under Norway's control. Experts believe Moscow uses US Arctic moves as cover. Svalbard's location is strategically important. It overlooks the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap. Russia fears NATO militarization of Svalbard. Recent incidents include Chechen forces…

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center . This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs . Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Five and a half trillion tons. That’s how much…

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PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed for several months last year in Greenland. Watson, 74, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd…