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GENEVA - The World Health Organization chief on Thursday rejected as false an allegation by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he owed his position to a deal with China. Pompeo told a private meeting of MPs on Tuesday that the WHO had become a "political" body, alleging that…

IMAGE: Caribou grazing on vegetation near an Arctic mosquito pond in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. view more  Credit: Photo by Melissa DeSiervo. Bzz! It's mosquito season in Greenland. June and July marks the period when Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes) are in peak abundance, buzzing about the tundra. While Arctic mosquitoes serve as an…

By Tom LITTLE, with Johannes Ledel in Stockholm (AFP)     Jul 22, 2020 in Politics Rival interests in the Arctic topped the agenda when the US Secretary of State visited Denmark Wednesday, a year after the countries butted heads over President Donald Trump's offer to buy Greenland.Following a visit…

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By Mark Kaufman2020-07-01 16:21:43 UTC Earth is relentlessly heating. So it's strange that there's a persistent "cold blob" in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The cold blob (aka "warming hole") is like a glaring pimple, easily apparent on recent NASA surface temperature maps. As a whole, the ocean's surface…

A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists from UCL, ZSL and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera built and deployed by the team. The soft coral garden, presented in a new Frontiers in Marine Science paper,…

Updated / Sunday, 28 Jun 2020 17:16 Speak In Colours got up in time Shane Crosse rode the biggest winner of his career to date when Speak In Colours gamely held on in the Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands Stakes at the Curragh. Turned out again quickly by Joseph O'Brien having run…

Siberian huskiesPhoto: Thomas Frey (DPA/AFP via Getty Images)Scientists have traced the ancestry of modern sled dogs, such as Siberian huskies and Alaskan malamutes, all the way back to the end of the last ice age, highlighting an extraordinarily long period of genetic continuity.“Although sled dogs are one of the most…

The poetic photo series “I can’t go without you” by German photographer and writer Michael Schauer is a journey through the icy landscapes of the northern Arctic. Captured in different places (Greenland, Norway), these strong images radiate their magnificent colours. The scorching red sunset brings the images together and merges…