The Latest Breaking News from Greenland

Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.

The microscopic fragments, found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland, are twice the age of the previous oldest DNA.

Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

The former president once compared the purchase of the Scandanavian island to a ‘large real estate deal’

Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change

I’m standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerized by a mind-blowing scene of natural destruction. A milewide section of glacier front has fractured and is collapsing into the ocean, calving an immense iceberg.

Human-caused global warming has has locked in a certain amount of sea level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

A new study finds that Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice that can be thought of as zombie ice that's going to raise sea level globally by at least 10 inches

The rarely-seen Greenland shark was found swimming off the coast of Belize in what was described as the first-ever reported sighting of the fish in western Caribbean waters