Greenland

Greenland's lawmakers on Friday got their first look at a draft constitution that the autonomous territory could rely on if it comes to negotiating independence from Denmark. Developed in secrecy over four years, the 49-paragraph document written in Greenlandic was presented by a constitutional commission to the territory's parliament, the…

Life Balto had a varied ancestry, sharing genes with Siberian huskies, Greenland sledge dogs, Vietnamese village dogs and Tibetan mastiffs By Corryn Wetzel Sledder Gunnar Kasson hugs Balto the famed sledge dog Getty Images An analysis of the genes of renowned sledge dog Balto, long believed to be a Siberian…

During the last ice age, massive icebergs periodically broke off from an ice sheet covering a large swath of North America and discharged rapidly melting ice into the North Atlantic Ocean around Greenland, triggering abrupt climate change impacts across the globe. These sudden episodes, called Heinrich Events, occurred between 16,000…

The Greenland ice sheet is, quite literally, a relic of the last ice age. It consists of snow that fell year after year, century after century, and never melted; at the very bottom, there are flakes that fell more than a hundred thousand years ago. The ice sheet is so…

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study. Using 50 different satellite estimates, researchers found that Greenland’s melt has gone into hyperdrive in the last few years.…

Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier doubled its annual ice loss in just a few years, thanks to warm ocean water Aerial view of Greenland Glaciers and icebergs. The island's Steenstrup Glacier is experiencing abrupt melting. Credit: Elijah Lovkoff/Alamy Stock Photo CLIMATEWIRE | For decades, the Steenstrup Glacier was one of Greenland’s most stable swaths…

As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, one of Greenland's previously most stable glaciers is now retreating at an unprecedented rate, according to a new study. Led by researchers at The Ohio State University, a team found that between 2018 and 2021, Steenstrup Glacier in Greenland has retreated about…

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Regional setting and ice history. (A) The Eastern Settlement of Southern Greenland. The inset shows the entirety of Greenland; dark gray depicts grounded ice cover at present, light gray is land, and white is ocean. Eight black stars show locations of the Viking sites considered herein and also Nanortalik, where…

Environment The increasing mass of the Greenland ice sheet caused local sea level to rise more than 3 metres after Vikings colonised Greenland, flooding many settlements and contributing to their abandonment of the place By Michael Le Page The settlement of Qassiarsuk in Greenland was once probably the site of…