Greenland

Jens Borch Scharnberg was leery when a powerful empire sent a diplomat to his tiny, wind-swept fjord in one of the most remote places on Earth. The 41-year-old is the principal of the school in Kangerlussuaq, a quiet Arctic village of about 500 in northwest Greenland. Americans are fairly common…

These animal facts from Ask Reddit will keep a conversation going. 1. The blobfish looks like a normal fish underwater, but since they are a deep sea fish, the depressurization make it look like what we see in pictures. 2. Bald eagles don’t sound like they do on TV. They…

University of Washington IMAGE: This shows the amount of ice gained or lost by Antarctica between 2003 and 2019. Dark reds and purples show large average rates of ice loss near the coasts, while… view more  Credit: Smith et al./ScienceUsing the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in…

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Monday, May 4: it's Star Wars Day. And in honor of the international holiday, we take a look ar Robert Burden's massive Battle For the Arctic painting which was part of his Play exhibition at Heron Arts earlier this year. The painting is 14-feet long! Seems like the grand scale…

For people who live in the Arctic, sea ice that forms along shorelines is a vital resource that connects isolated communities and provides access to hunting and fishing grounds. A new study by Brown University researchers found that climate change could significantly reduce this "shorefast ice" in communities across Northern…

Before we were celebrating birthdays via Zoom, and before not wearing pants to work was the norm, SoulPancakea media company founded by The Office star Rainn Wilsonwas on a mission to foster human co… Read More

Antarctica and Greenland have lost thousands of gigatons of ice in the last 16 years alone. According to new data from NASA, that ice melt has contributed to more than half an inch of sea level rise around the world.  Collectively, Antarctica and Greenland lost more than 5,000 gigatons of…

Zim, plotting something devious as usual.Image: NickelodeonMuch as we all may love and remember about Invader Zim, there’s so, so much more to the series that ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor—because animation, like all creative processes, is a vicious business in which one must sometimes kill their…

(CNN)The Earth is losing ice at a record speed chiefly due to warming from the ocean caused by climate change.A new study by NASA shows that Antarctica and Greenland's ice sheets lost 118 gigatons and 200 gigatons of ice on average per year. That would fill more than 127 million…