Greenland is at the center of two high-stakes developments: scientists report its ice sheet is melting six times faster than in past decades, while a critical mining merger tied to its rare earth ...

Giant vehicles were used to transport supplies to Camp Century, a U.S. military base in Greenland, shown in June 1959. (Pictorial Parade/Getty Images) As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the ...

Scientists drilling deep beneath Greenland’s ice have uncovered a startling clue about its past—and future. Evidence shows that the Prudhoe Dome, a major high point of the ice sheet, completely melted ...

Beneath Greenland’s ice sheet lies the remnants of Project Iceworm, a covert Cold War initiative by the United States aimed at constructing a hidden missile base. At the heart of this effort was Camp ...

Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...

In the summer of 1959, a group of American soldiers began carving trenches in the Greenland ice sheet. Those trenches would become the snow-covered tunnels of Camp Century, a secret Arctic research ...