Greenland

Greenland shark head floats in a tub of water. More of a spectacle for guests than anything, the ... rest of the shark is fermented and served to guests at this fish house in Northern Iceland. Ariella Simke The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) looks like the result of one too…

Earth View 2020 update hero image Gopal Shah Product Manager, Google Earth Published Feb 11, 2020 Ten years ago, I was flying over San Francisco when this strange but kaleidoscopically beautiful vista opened up outside of my tiny airplane window. When I got home, I fired up Google Earth to…

A huge iceberg just broke off of one of the most fragile glaciers in Antarctica. The chunk of ice, about the size of the Tampa, Florida, cleaved from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Scientists had been keeping an eye on two huge cracks in an ice shelf down…

KEENE, N.H. — Former New Mexico governor and 2016 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson offered his support to Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary in a voicemail obtained by Insider.  "Hey, I w…

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In this file photo, snow covers cars in Paradise, Newfoundland, in this image obtained from social media A "bomb" cyclone with a central pressure of 929 millibars (mb) has formed between Greenland and Iceland, while another deep low pressure area has opened up over the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. A "bomb"…

The US military has been turning more of its attention to the Arctic as a venue for so-called great-power competition with another powerful military — in this case, Russia. The US Navy has played a big role in that shift. The USS Harry S. Truman's presence a…

In the big picture, melting at the surface still drives most of Greenland ice sheet loss, but underwater melting is also important. points to the value of understanding a lot of those local details in order to understand what is happening on an ic…

Scientists have long known that higher air temperatures are contributing to the surface melting on Greenland's ice sheet. But a new study has found another threat that has begun attacking the ice from below: Warm ocean water moving underneath the vast glaciers is causing them to melt even more quickly.…

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster today than it did only a few years ago. The reason: it's not just melting on the surface -- but underwater, too. AWI researchers have now found an explanation for the intensive melting on the ice's underside, and publ…