On a flat map, Greenland looks like a lonely white expanse at the top of the world. On the right projections, it jumps out as ...

New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...

High above the Arctic Circle, surrounded by Greenland’s frozen wastes, American scientists conducting a secret research ...

Using satellite data, scientists examined the changing states of polar ice and drafted velocity maps that revealed a dramatic ...

The year was 1845. Many cartographers and some Arctic explorers in the early 1800’s believed there was a way to sail from ...

A decades-old Soviet secret has resurfaced beneath Arctic waters after a Russian scientific expedition located a long-missing ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...

The map reveals snow depths of up to 66cm in the eastern highlands area, particularly around Aberdeenshire, by 3am. High snow ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a process scientists find ...

High in the Arctic, a cluster of new findings from Greenland is forcing scientists to redraw some of the most basic diagrams ...

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an orderly shutdown of the ...