Greenland

I was born on the summer solstice in an age without a name.My parents were born in a previous geological epoch. Six unknowing months before the start of the Great Depression, my father arrived. His given name was Richard, but as soon as his hair came in, he was Red.…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.The glacier section that broke off is 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles). It came off of the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which…

A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far northeast Arctic.Scientists say it is evidence of rapid climate change.The glacier section broke off the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which is roughly 80km long and 20km wide, the National Geological Survey…

Satellite imagesA big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden - in north-east Greenland.The ejected section covers about 110 square km; satellite imagery shows it to have shattered into many small pieces.The loss is further evidence say scientists of the…

Israel announces second national coronavirus lockdown Israel is preparing to impose a new national lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, beginning on Friday and lasting for at least three weeks. The restrictions, which overlap with important Jewish festivals, will “exact a heavy price on us all”, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.…

A Greenland shark photographed at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet in Nunavut, Canada, in 2007. Hemming1952/Wikimedia CommonsGreenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrate species on the planet. One study found that they could live nearly 400 years.These Arctic sharks can reach lengths of up to 24 feet and can…

Susanna Clarke is the author of two literary legends. The first is fictional. In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, her 2004 debut novel, Clarke created an alternative England where magicians conjure warships out of the rain and walk through mirrors. The eponymous Strange and Norrell are gentleman scholars (and rivals)…

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has been losing mass for several decades due to increased surface meltwater runoff and ablation of marine-terminating outlet glaciers via calving and submarine melting ice discharge. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at accelerated rates, making it the largest single contributor to rising sea…

00:20 Qaanaaq is one 00:22 of the most northerly settlements on earth. 00:25 And after months of darkness and Arctic storms, 00:28 the ocean turns from ice to water almost 00:37 just before our President tried to buy Greenland, 00:43 and I was thinking about 00:45 how far away that…

I loathe the cold and love the warm. Who doesn’t? I grew up in Ireland where spring and winter were always very cold. In the 1950s, central heating was rare. We stayed warm by burning coal in open grates and used kerosene oil in a heater. Many nights, we children…