Greenland

Updated September 13, 2023 at 10:30 AM Published September 12, 2023 at 9:28 PM COPENHAGEN -– A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people has run aground in remote eastern Greenland, with the nearest help by sea days away, the Danish military’s Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said on Tuesday. The Ocean…

1. Greenland To start things off, we have the island with the lowest temperature in the world. Despite its misleading name, Greenland’s bitter cold temperatures evoke anything but visions of sunny pastures and verdant valleys. Eighty percent of the world’s largest island is blanketed in a 4-kilometer thick ice sheet. …

British Antarctic Survey An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) was deployed from the RRS Sir David Attenborough (SDA) for the first time last week. The Gavia Offshore Surveyor, named Freya, was deployed from the ship's workboat Erebus as part of the latest phase of trials. The AUV is being tested to…

CNN  —  As the climate warms, scientists have suggested that “time-traveling pathogens” unleashed by thawing Arctic permafrost may pose a risk to modern ecosystems. Permafrost is a hard layer of frozen ground made of soil, sand and rocks in high-latitude or high-altitude areas such as Greenland, Alaska, Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and northern…

News Entertainment Greenland (as pictured) and the Faroe Islands have issued a stamp commemorating the upcoming "Huginn" mission by ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark. (Image credit: Tusass Greenland) A Danish astronaut's upcoming space mission has gotten the stamp of approval from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.…

Updated 05/08/2023 at 17:59 GMT Great Britain's Charlie Hatton won the men's mountain bike Downhill title in the shadow of Ben Nevis on Saturday evening courtesy of a slim 0.6 second margin of victory over Austrian rival Andreas Kolb. Fellow Brit Laurie Greenland completed the podium as the home crowd…

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About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing with insects, covered the southern part of Greenland. Global sea level was much higher then, between 20 and 40…

By Emmanuella Anokam For African journalists and experts on tour of Gazprom’s production facilities in Russia, from July 17 to 26, nothing could be more fascinating than crossing the Arctic Circle in the Yamal Peninsula. Speaking in an interview, some of the journalists said they had known the Arctic Circle…

George Linkletter, working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, examines a piece of ice core in the science trench at Camp Century. The base was shut down in 1967. Credit: U.S. Army Photograph About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free.…