Greenland

Home News The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 660,000 square miles (1,710,000 square kilometres), roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. (Image: © Danita Delimont/Getty Images) Frozen Greenland is on track to become significantly less frozen before the 21st century is over. By 2055, winter…

Warming seas are accelerating the retreat of Greenland’s coastal glaciers. Sverdrup Glacier in northwest Greenland is pretty average. It is a textbook example of the many coastal glaciers around the island that flow into deep fjords. But Sverdrup also represents a large class of Greenland glaciers that are undergoing rapid…

Philippe Antonello/Netflix There’s a lot that’s frustrating about George Clooney’s new film “The Midnight Sky,” from its egregious borrowing from any number of better movies to its pacing issues, but thanks to a few grace notes, its shortcomings are mostly forgivable. Premiering December 23 on Netflix, it’s a film that…

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, India’s leading private sector general insurance company, declared JSS Shri Manjunathewara Central School, Hubli as the winners of HDFC ERGO Insurance Awareness Award Junior - Quiz 2020. With an impressive score of 205 points, the winners Kushal Pawar and Yash Jain were…

Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Greenland star Morena Baccarin is expecting her third child. The Firefly and Gotham alum announced the news during a remote appearance from her home in New York on Friday's edition of The Talk. She married actor Ben McKenzie in 2017. They are the parents of a…

UK weather: Temperatures to drop as 'stubborn' fog moves inTemperatures across the UK are set to plummet below freezing with an increased threat of snow showers from this evening. According to BBC Weather, the UK will continue to be engulfed by "cold air from Greenland" before a new weather system closes…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced late Friday the long-awaited winners of the city-state’s digital bank licences. A Grab-Singtel tie-up and Sea Ltd have received permits to form digital full banks, while Ant Group and a Greenland Financial consortium landed digital wholesale bank licences. The consortium led by Greenland…

(Xinhua) Chinese action crime film "Caught in Time" continued to lead the Chinese mainland's daily box office chart on Wednesday, raking in about 22.52 million yuan (3.4 million U.S. dollars).The movie's total box office revenue reached 280 million yuan within six days after its release, data from the China Movie…

(Variety) Hong Kong-produced “Caught in Time” gave fresh life to the mainland China box office over its opening weekend.The fantasy crime thriller about a cop chasing a gang through different eras earned $30.3 million. Produced by Emperor Motion Picture, the film stars the popular Daniel Wu and Wang Qianyuan, and…

Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise by more than 7 metres. But that’s not going to happen is it? Well not any time soon, but understanding how…