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A significant melt event is unfolding in Greenland this week. With temperatures nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit higher than usual in some areas, the southern part of the ice sheet is melting at its highest rate this season. Forecasts suggest that the melting on Greenland’s South Dome—one of the highest elevations…

Olaf Kruger/Getty ImagesA spectacular spotNortheast Greenland National Park is the world's largest national park and is unsurprisingly located on Greenland, the world's largest island. But how much do you know about this remote place? For more photos of national parks, here are 30 stunning photos of America's national parks in…

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Arising from Pandey et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10227-8 (2019)In their recent paper Pandey et al.1 use geochemical data from an International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) site in the Laxmi Basin to propose a previously unrecognized proto-subduction zone in the eastern Arabian Sea in the region of Laxmi Basin (LB), offshore…

Happy Handmade Savvy Saturday!We hope your weekend is filled with a little fun. We think we can all use some of that. In the meantime, here’s a little of what you may have missed on the handmade home this week:  • how to lay and age a brick patio – you know,…

Inspired by a nomadic sense of exploration, adventure photographer and polar guide Ben Haggar attempts to be the first person to traverse the Arctic Circle Route in West Greenland by bike in the ‘summer’ months. But first, he has to get there. With the goal of slowing down to the…

By Amanda Yeo2020-05-28 04:46:39 UTC It turns out that narwhals don't just look like electric drills. In a wonderfully serendipitous turn of events, it turns out the big-toothed whales sound like drills as well. Geophysicists worked with Inuit hunters last July to record rarely heard narwhal sounds in Greenland, collecting…

Normal and malformed spores from East Greenland. Credit: John Marshall Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years ago, that killed much of the Earth’s plant and freshwater aquatic life, was caused by a brief breakdown of the ozone layer that shields the…

Guest post by Renee Hannon Introduction The Arctic and Antarctic regions are different and yet similar in many ways. The Arctic has ocean surrounded by land and the Antarctic is a continent surrounded by water. Both are cold, glaciated and located at Earth’s poles some 11,000 miles apart. While sea…

A pair of narwhals breaching the surface. Image: NOAAMarine biologists, with help from Inuit whalers, have assembled an unprecedented collection of narwhal vocalizations, offering fresh insights into the behaviors of these near-mythical creatures. Narwhals, the so-called unicorns of the sea, are notoriously difficult to study owing to their skittish nature…