In 1845, two British ships entered the Arctic with 129 men searching for the Northwest Passage; both vessels and every member of the expedition disappearedThe collaboration between Inuit wisdom and Western scientific approaches facilitated the remarkable finding of two elusive ships from the F...
18 Sep, 2026, 06.26 PM IST
In 2009, NASA started conducting the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice under Operation IceBridge to bridge the observational gap between ICESat and ICESat-2In 2009, NASA started conducting the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice under Operation IceBridge to bridge the observational gap...
13 Sep, 2026, 12.14 AM IST
Trump's Greenland threats cast a shadow on Iceland's vote on whether to trigger EU membership talksIcelandic voters are deciding on resuming European Union membership talks. This referendum occurs amid United States President Donald Trump...
29 Aug, 2026, 10.07 AM IST
7,000 years ago, Greenland’s giant ice dome disappeared as temperatures climbed. Today, scientists say the ancient melting occurred at temperatures close to those now threatening the island’s remaining iceGreenland’s 1,600-foot ice dome vanished 7,000 years ago when temperatures were several degrees warmer than today. Now, scientists have fou...
21 Aug, 2026, 08.06 PM IST
In 2015, NASA's New Horizons flew past Pluto and captured detailed images of its frozen surface. More than a decade later, scientists revisited the images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have once flowed across the dwarf planetScientists found evidence of liquid nitrogen flow beneath Pluto's Sputnik Planitia. This flow may have occurred after rising through cracks...
14 Aug, 2026, 11.29 PM IST
With Swords, Axes & Shields, Fighters go head-to-head-Medieval StyleAt Denmark's Spottrup Castle, armour-clad fighters from 30 countries are battling it out with blunted swords and axes at the medieval comba...
25 Jul, 2026, 12.35 AM IST
Earth’s Forgotten Collisions: Where Ancient Impact Craters Have Been HidingBeneath Earth's seemingly calm surface lie hidden scars from colossal asteroid impacts. These ancient craters, buried by ice, sediment, and...
02 Mar, 2026, 04.12 PM IST
Under Greenland’s Ice, Radar Uncovered a 19-Mile-Long CanyonScientists have uncovered a massive canyon system, approximately 19 miles long, hidden beneath Greenland's ice sheet. Airborne radar survey...
01 Mar, 2026, 11.08 PM IST
Mystery Solved: Scientists Finally Explain the Strange Swirls Hidden Deep in Greenland’s IceMysterious plume-like structures deep within the Greenland Ice Sheet, observed for over a decade, are now explained by thermal convection. ...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.33 PM IST
Greenland isn’t green at all — so how did the world’s iciest island get its name?Greenland's name, a clever marketing ploy by Erik the Red around 1000 AD to attract settlers, is a stark contrast to its icy reality. While...
18 Jan, 2026, 01.20 AM IST
Why is there a US military base buried under a glacier? Climate change fears spark concernsDuring the Cold War, the U.S. built Camp Century under Greenland's glacier as a covert military base. Initially posed as a research facilit...
17 Feb, 2025, 05.13 PM IST
NASA discovers a 'Secret City' built by US military to survive a nuclear attackA NASA aircraft's ice-penetrating radar revealed the lost Cold War-era Camp Century under Greenland's ice. Built in the 1960s for nuclear m...
27 Nov, 2024, 05.51 PM IST
‘City under the ice’: NASA unearths hidden Cold War era US military base 100 feet beneath GreenlandNASA’s recent radar survey over Greenland has uncovered Camp Century, a Cold War-era U.S. military base buried beneath 100 feet of ice. The...
27 Nov, 2024, 01.13 PM IST
Indian-origin scientist — who has a glacier named after him — to drill through Greenland ice to study effects of climate changeProject Bags USD 7 Million Grant From US National Science Foundation
04 Aug, 2020, 12.05 PM IST
Greenland's ice at more risk than thought: StudyUp to four times more coastal glaciers in Greenland are at risk of accelerated melting than previously thought, say scientists who have map...
02 Nov, 2017, 03.30 PM IST
- Greenland ice loss 7 per cent faster than previously thought
New York, Sep 22 (IANS) Greenland lost nearly 2,700 gigatons of ice from 2003-2013, not about 2,500 gigatons as scientists previously thoug...
22 Sep, 2016, 02.27 PM IST
Earth's internal heat driving Greenland's ice to meltGreenland's lithosphere has hot depths which originate in its distant geological past and cause the island's ice to rapidly flow and melt f...
08 Apr, 2016, 03.57 PM IST