Jun 16, 2014 by News Staff

Geophysicists from the United States and Sweden have discovered ice blocks as tall as city skyscrapers at the very bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The...

Apr 17, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. geologists have discovered what they say is a Pleistocene landscape preserved about 3 km beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. Abour 3 million years ago,...

Jan 29, 2014 by News Staff

A living cold-water coral reef has been discovered by chance in the waters off southern Greenland. This image, taken at a depth of about 900 meters, shows...

Dec 25, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has uncovered a giant reservoir of water beneath the ice sheet in Southeast Greenland. This map shows locations of...

Nov 28, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute has discovered two lakes about 800 m below the ice sheet...

Aug 30, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers using radar data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge has discovered a previously unmapped canyon hidden for all...

Aug 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship R/V Falkor has discovered the S.S. Terra Nova, a whaler, sealer and polar exploration...

Jul 3, 2012 by News Staff

European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...