Greenland

The Liverpool Land peninsula, on the east coast of Greenland, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. The peninsula is visible at the top partially covered with snow. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2022), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The Liverpool Land peninsula, on the east coast of…

Nine persons were killed on Valentine’s Day at Ikata community of Upata Kingdom in Ahoada-East local government area of Rivers State, following a clash between two rival cult groups, Leadership has reported. A source in the community said the deaths occurred when two factions of suspected Greenland Cult groups loyal…

In Greenland, climate change is causing fish populations to decline, invasive species to find new homes, and sea levels to rapidly rise. Between 2001 and 2011, temperatures on the island were higher than they have been in the last thousand years. Glaciers are melting nearly seven times faster than they…

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has transitioned from near-zero mass loss in the 1990s to significant and sustained annual mass losses since the mid-2000s. While the satellite. It is now the largest cryospheric contributor to sea level rise. The uncertainty associated with ice sheet motion plagues sea level rise predictions.…

Researchers have found that the movement of glaciers in Greenland is more complex than previously thought, with deformation in regions of warmer ice containing small amounts of water accounting for motion that had often been assumed to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath. The international…

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Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 6 Feb 2023 8:30PM · Residents stand in front of a collapsed building following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria today, killing over 1,400 people in their sleep and causing tremors felt as far away as Greenland. – AFP pic, February…

Türkiye quake tremors felt as far away as Greenland COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Tremors from the powerful earthquake that rocked Turkey and neighbouring Syria on Monday were felt as far away as Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said. Residents retrieve a small child from the rubble of a…

A recent study of high-quality ice cores taken from central north Greenland has shown that global warming has well and truly reached the island. The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) researchers found the years from 2001 to 2011 were the warmest in the island’s…

The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through…