Greenland

A satellite image of the crater the flood burst from taken on 28 April 2015. (Image credit: CPOM, Lancaster University © DigitalGlobe, Inc. (2015), provided by European Space Imaging.) Scientists have discovered a previously-undetected flood under the Greenland ice sheet that spilled out with such force that it burst through…

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the surface to scour an area nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Greenland's Harder Glacier and the subglacial flood outburst site (right bottom)…

Synopsis Russia moves to get an Arctic territory: Russia increases its presence in Svalbard. This area is under Norway's control. Experts believe Moscow uses US Arctic moves as cover. Svalbard's location is strategically important. It overlooks the Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap. Russia fears NATO militarization of Svalbard. Recent incidents include Chechen forces…

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center . This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs . Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Five and a half trillion tons. That’s how much…

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PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed for several months last year in Greenland. Watson, 74, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd…

In the harsh Arctic climate, sled dogs are invaluable for transportation across the snow- and ice-bound landscape. Descended from a common ancestor, sled breeds include the Alaskan malamute, Siberian husky, and Samoyed. Unlike these breeds, Qimmit (the plural of Qimmeq) have pulled sleds in the same location for the same…

M y mother’s paternal grandmother, Maaliaana, was born in Kangaamiut, in western Kalaallit Nunaat, sometime in the beginning of the 1900s. (Kalaallit Nunaat is an endonym for my motherland; Greenland is what the international community generally calls it.) She was the product of a one-night stand with a British whaler,…

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The Qimmeq (Greenland sled dog) has worked continuously with the Inuit in Greenland for more than 800 years. However, they now face drastic population declines caused by climate change, urbanization, and competition from snowmobiles. This study sequenced ...Read More