Two studies this week on the history of Greenland's ice sheet, home to the some of the world's fastest-melting glaciers, have found that at least once almost the whole country was laid bare of ice for hundreds of thousands of years. The pair of studies are published together in the journal Nature. The first, led by...
Great Britain's vote to exit from the European Union (E.U.) may have come as a shock to politicians and voters and the world, but it's not the first time a member state has left the group. Greenland was the first and only one until now. In the early 1970s, an early version of the E.U. was created, called the European...