Greenland

ByAndrew Bisharat Published August 18, 2022 • 15 min read Battling loose rock, sub-freezing temperatures, and sudden storms, two of the world’s most celebrated rock climbers, Alex Honnold and Hazel Findlay, completed a notable first ascent of one of the world’s tallest monoliths, a remote 3,750-foot rock wall in eastern…

Home News A juvenile snailfish imaged under white light. (Image credit: John Sparks and David Gruber) Scientists drilling deep into an iceberg off Greenland have discovered a fish with glowing green antifreeze coursing through its veins. The juvenile variegated snailfish (Liparis gibbus) contained the "highest expression levels" of antifreeze proteins…

Greenland’s variegated snailfish produces antifreeze proteins that stop large ice crystal formation, keeping the animal’s blood like a slushie, instead of frozen solid Life 16 August 2022 By Corryn Wetzel A juvenile variegated snailfish J. Sparks, D. Gruber The variegated snailfish produces soaring levels of antifreeze proteins, which help the…

The eastern two-thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 metres. Most scientists had once thought this ice sheet was largely invulnerable to climate change, but not anymore. And our new research, published in Nature, reveals the…

For the first time ever, a Greenland shark — that up until now scientists had thought lived only in Arctic waters — was recently spotted near a Caribbean reef. Florida International University doctoral candidate Devanshi Kasana was on a tiger shark tagging trip in waters off Belize when she and local…

Home News The shark looks like a Greenland shark but was released before a genetic sample could be collected. (Image credit: Devanshi Kasana/FIU) A strange, ancient-looking shark with blue eyes was unexpectedly discovered in the tropical waters of the Caribbean when it was hooked by Belizean fishers and a biologist…

AnimalsA Greenland shark was spotted off the coast of Belize, raising the possibility the sharks are more widespread than previously thought. ByAnnie Roth Published August 2, 2022 • 6 min read The lives of most sharks remain cloaked in mystery, and the Greenland shark is no exception—but what we’ve learned…

The Greenland Ice Sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week, with 18 billion tons of water running into the North Atlantic in just three days. Satellite photos reveal melt ponds dotting the ice cover, particularly near the coasts. Why it matters: Greenland's melting…

A polar bear group in the wild at sunset. An adult and two cubs. Credit: David Schultz / Getty ImagesA new subpopulation of Greenland polar bears offers insights into how this species might hang on as Arctic ice disappears. Fionna M. D. Samuels: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m…

A Southeast Greenland polar bear on glacier, or freshwater, ice at 61 degrees north in September 2016 taken during NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland field mission. Credit: NASA/Thomas W. Johansen Greenland’s fjords harbor a unique group of polar bears that rely on glacial ice, a NASA-funded research study reported on June…