Greenland

Plans for Greenland’s Metropolis project looked simple enough back in 2014 (Getty Images) Struggling to repay bond investors, Greenland Holdings has sold a 59-storey Los Angeles residential tower, the centrepiece of the Chinese developer’s first-ever US project, to American apartment operator Northland for $504 million. The transaction for the 685-unit…

Home News Over tens of thousands of years, a massive ice sheet covered and then exposed land masses in northwestern Europe. (Image credit: BRITICE-CHRONO Project/Chris Clark) In an animation that spans tens of thousands of years, an ancient ice sheet grows to envelope land masses that would one day be…

TORONTO, ONTARIO / ACCESSWIRE / November 4, 2022 / Amaroq Minerals Ltd. (AIM, TSXV, NASDAQ First North: AMRQ - formerly AEX Gold Inc.), an independent mine development company with a substantial land package of gold and strategic mineral assets covering an area of 7,866.85 km 2 in Southern Greenland, has…

CIFI chairman Lin Zhong is joining the restructuring club (Getty Images) Mainland China’s developer credit crisis dominates the news again today after Shanghai-based CIFI Holdings announced that it will enter restructuring and Greenland Group said it will seek an extension on an offshore bond. Also, getting some virtual ink is…

This image gives me hives.Photo: Richard Drew/Associated Press | Screenshot: New York Times Bret Stephens, the New York Times columnist with a long history of bad conservative takes—the same man who decided to quit Twitter after he threw a fit over being called a bedbug—says he’s changed. In an essay…

Companies are considering a major geoengineering project that would build a barrier to block warm seawater from reaching the base of Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland Environment 21 October 2022 By Rowan Hooper Satellite image of Jakobshavn glacier, Greenland, in 2019 NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens/U.S. Geological Survey Major engineering companies are…

An international body recently banned the Greenland shark from intentional catch and bycatch in international waters. The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) made the decision in September. Shark Advocates International President Sonja Fordham told Mongabay: “It was a long time coming, but not a long time in the life of…

Climate change is resulting in sea level rise as ice on land melts and oceans expand. How much and how fast sea levels will rise in the near future will depend, in part, on the frequency of glacier calving events. These occur when large chunks of ice detach from glaciers…

Meltwater from Greenland churns the ocean, speeding the loss of glaciers like stirring ice cubes in a glass of water Jagged blue ice face of Eqip Glacier along Disko Bay on summer afternoon, Ilulissat, Greenland. Credit: Paul Souders/Getty Images The Greenland ice sheet may be even more sensitive to the…

Updated / Wednesday, 5 Oct 2022 07:23 An aerial view of meltwater lakes formed at the Russell Glacier in Greenland in August this year A new study of the melting of vast ice sheets, which once covered Ireland over 20,000 years ago could have implications for understanding how glaciers and…