Greenland

Eight decades after the writer H.P. Lovecraft died of intestinal cancer, having published in his lifetime only one book, riddled with printing errors, his name appeared on billboards throughout the United States. Promoting the HBO show Lovecraft Country, the advertisements seemed to suggest that Lovecraft, who died in 1937 in…

The NASA-funded Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) performed well in seismic experiments conducted in snowy summer Greenland, according to a new study by the SIIOS team led by the University of Arizona published this week in Seismological Research Letters. SIIOS could be a part of proposed NASA…

The deep ice at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland entirely melted at least once within the last million years and was covered with vegetation, including moss and perhaps trees, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Understanding the history of the Greenland Ice…

An Arctic walrus found itself thousands of miles from home this weekend off the coast of Ireland. Marine biologists agree the walrus is likely quite young based on the size of its tusks. One expert theorized the animal drifted far from home after falling asleep on an iceberg  See more…

Home News Greenland's ice sheet may have disappeared far more recently than once thought, enabling plants and trees to thrive. (Image credit: Joshua Brown/UVM) Frozen soil that was collected in Greenland during the Cold War by a secret military operation hid another secret: buried fossils that could be a million…

In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland -- and pulled up a fifteen-foot-long tube of dirt from the bottom. Then this frozen sediment was lost in a freezer for decades. It was accidentally rediscovered in 2017. In 2019, University of Vermont…

Most of Greenland is covered with ice today. But a new study shows that within the last million years it melted off and became covered with green tundra, perhaps like this view of eastern Greenland, on the coast near the ocean. The research provides strong evidence that Greenland is more…

During the earth formation, some catastrophic impacts took place that would have generated enough energy to melt our planet’s interior. Be that as it may, we don’t think a lot about this distant and fiery period of Earth’s history because the tectonic process has reused practically all rocks older than…

New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence -- preserved in the chemistry of ancient rocks from Greenland -- which tells of a time when Earth was almost entirely molten. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, yields information on a important period in our…

Home News An outcrop of Greenland's Isua supracrustal belt contains the oldest known rocks on Earth. (Image credit: Hanika Rizo) Rocks collected in Greenland may hold traces of an ancient magma ocean that bubbled over much of Earth's surface soon after the planet's birth, a new study finds. Scientists gathered…