The Americans have the Pituffik Space Base (pronounced Bee-doo-FEEK) in northwestern Greenland. Its 150 personnel run missile ...

The ink-dark seas were glassy and the conditions mild in one of the most rapidly warming environments on Earth. Here live the ...

Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for ...

Trump's announcement of a 'framework of a future deal' marks a shift after weeks of threats from the United States. Here's ...

Nations worldwide maintain territories for strategic and military purposes, often remnants of colonial empires.

US President Donald Trump has announced there is a "framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland". The statement came ...

President Trump's statement Wednesday that Greenland is a core national security interest puts a focus on the existing U.S.

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

Trump's calls for a takeover of Greenland puts open scientific collaboration that is helping our understanding of the threat ...

The granddaddy of the U.S. Coast Guard fleet arrived this month at McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica, to clear channels for supply ships.

Astronauts orbiting the Earth are drilled to deal with the worst possible scenarios. That includes having to leave a doomed ...