North Greenland is known for being "the land of ... Those tiny samples revealed that the freezing region was once the ancient home for many more animals, plants and microorganisms than are there ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Until recently, geologists believed that Greenland was a fortress of ice, mostly unmelted for millions of years. But, two years ago, using soil once buried a mile beneath the island’s ...

Paul Bierman receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. Tammy Rittenour receives funding from the US National Science Foundation.. About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland ...

Previous paleoclimatic records show the ancient ecosystem was 10 to 17 degrees Celsius (18 to 31 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than modern-day Greenland. The DNA evidence could provide researchers ...

As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores.

The ancient frozen soil from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet warns of trouble ahead. During the MIS 11 interglacial, Earth was warm and ice sheets were restricted to the high latitudes, a lot like today ...

“If the Greenland ice sheet could melt substantially ... of planet-warming pollution from burning fossil fuels, those ancient fluctuations in the planet’s temperature were triggered by slight ...

Ancient Norse traditions and climate-savvy practices come together on Inuit sheep farms in southern Greenland. Wool-wrangler ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

By studying their age and chemistry, they were able to trace their place of origin to rock fields across Greenland. This meant that they had been moved to the shore by someone or something more ...

It was originally published at The Conversation. About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands.