Greenland

Ice capped and snow-covered mountains of coastal west Greenland. (April 2015). Credit: Matthew Osman © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Greenland may be best known for its enormous continental scale ice sheet that soars up to 3,000 meters above sea level, whose rapid melting is a leading contributor to global sea…

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Life 9 September 2021 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre A grenadier fish swimming along undisturbed sea floor near an anemone ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON Sponges and corals living in newly discovered underwater fields and meadows are at risk of destruction as they are continuously raked over by halibut fishing boats off the…

Greenland may be best known for its enormous continental scale ice sheet that soars up to 3,000 meters above sea level, whose rapid melting is a leading contributor to global sea level rise. But surrounding this massive ice sheet, which covers 79% of the world's largest island, is Greenland's rugged…

Edge › Africa › Culture Akon’s futuristic city plans might have hit a snag as locals express disappointment about the pace of the project. Oluwapelumi Adejumo · September 7, 2021 at 5:00 am UTC · 2 min read A little over a year ago, Senegalese-born songwriter Akon proposed to build…

Home » Energy » Rain on Greenland Summit is a First Rain fell on the highest part of Greenland ice sheet last week for the first time on record. Greenland’s ice sheet is the world’s second-largest after Antarctica’s. Greenland icemelt has caused around 25% of global sea level rise seen…

A study led by Princeton University researchers found that as meltwater lakes on the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet (pictured) rapidly drain, they create water blisters between the ice and the bedrock that scientists could use to understand the hydrological network below Greenland’s thick inland ice sheet. These networks could…

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Home News The newly discovered island is extremely small, and will likely not be around for a long time. (Image credit: Morten Rasch) In July, a group of scientists accidentally found themselves on a tiny island in northern Greenland made up of mounds of silt and gravel.  The expeditioners thought…

This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We started hearing a noise, like breaking, or coins falling,” says Marco Tedesco, a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He makes a loud, sustained crunching sound, recreating what he…