Greenland

the big melt — Fresh, cold water from Greenland ice melting upsets North Atlantic currents. Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News - Mar 3, 2024 11:31 am UTC Enlarge / The Wamme river is seen at a low level during the European heatwave on Aug 10, 2022 in Rochefort, Belgium. Thierry…

A group of fossils found in Northern Greenland have painted quite a terrifying picture. If the fossils are accurate, then it is likely that a group of “terror worms” once roamed our world’s oceans almost 518 million years ago. This ancient dynasty of predators is one that scientists didn’t know…

An illustration of the giant Cambrian predator that lived around 518 million years ago in what is now Greenland. (Image credit: Artwork by Bob Nicholls/@BobNichollsArt) A "terror beast" marine worm with a giant jaw dominated the seas more than 500 million years ago, exquisitely preserved fossils show. Scientists recently uncovered…

Author of the article: Associated Press Jan M. Olsen Published Sep 13, 2023  •  Last updated 2 days ago  •  3 minute read A view of the Ocean Explorer, a Bahamas-flagged cruise ship with 206 passengers and crew, which has run aground in northwestern Greenland, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Photo…

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…