Soon after the vibrations began, a cruise ship sailing near fjords in Greenland noticed that on the remote Ella Island, a key ...

Satellite data show the shape of a wave as water sloshed around Dickson Fjord after a rockslide triggered a tsunami. The SWOT ...

Wherever possible, though, scientists have endeavoured to get up the fjords to acquire direct data. This has been the imperative of the US-led OMG (Oceans Melting Greenland) project that is ...

For as long as the Inuit have been in Greenland, winter has been the time for visits, journeys, and hunts. Of the 2,200 people who live along Uummannaq Fjord, more than half are on its namesake ...

He woke up to shoot between 4 and 6 in the morning, when low, dramatic clouds and fog hang in the air in Greenland, diffusing the harsh summer sun. The rest of the day he hiked, fished ...

He woke up to shoot between 4 and 6 in the morning, when low, dramatic clouds and fog hang in the air in Greenland, diffusing the harsh summer sun. The rest of the day he hiked, fished ...

Greenland is a bit of a mystery to many people. Its island neighbor, Iceland, gets most of the attention, and not everyone knows that both countries have similarly stunning landscapes, massive ...

Create your own private pop-up camp in sensational surroundings, with only seals and polar bears for neighbors. A weeklong immersion for 10 people into the best in cold-weather adventures, from ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A little north and west of Greenland's stormy southern tip, on a steep hillside above an iceberg-clotted fjord first ...