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Home News Ruins of a church in Hvalsey, a Norse settlement in Greenland. Vikings built the structure around the 14th century. (Image credit: Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The Vikings are remembered as fierce fighters, but even these mighty warriors were no match for climate change. Scientists recently…

The Arctic continues to deteriorate from global warming, not setting as many records this year as in the past, but still changing so rapidly that federal scientists call it alarming in their annual Arctic report card. The 16th straight health check for the northern polar region spotlighted the first ever…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans not to travel to Greenland, Italy and Mauritius due to rising COVID-19 cases. File Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday elevated the COVID-19 risk to its…

By DAVID SHEPARDSON, Reuters Published December 14, 2021 6:00am Updated December 14, 2021 10:21am WASHINGTON - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday advised Americans against travel to Italy, Greenland and Mauritius, citing COVID-19 concerns. The CDC now lists 84 destinations at "Level 4: Very High"…

The Greenland Centre Sydney has been completed after eight years One of Sydney’s longest-running high-rise construction projects has reached the finish line with Shanghai’s Greenland Group this week announcing the completion of a residential tower in the city’s central business district. The 235 metre (771 foot) mixed-use building, dubbed Greenland…

Scientists from Portugal, Denmark, and Germany, including the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), have recently unearthed the first dinosaur species that lived about 214 million years ago in Greenland. The dinosaur Issi saaneq has two legs, long neck. This medium-sized herbivore dinosaur was a predecessor of the sauropods, the largest…

COPENHAGEN - Greenland's parliament has passed legislation that will ban uranium mining and cease development of the Kuannersuit mine, one of the biggest rare earth deposits in the world. Kuannersuit, owned by Australian mining firm Greenland Minerals and located near the southern town of Narsaq, contains a large deposit of…

A new genus and species of plateosaurid sauropodomorph dinosaur has been identified from two fossilized skulls found in Jameson Land, a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Life reconstruction of Issi saaneq. Image credit: Victor Beccari. Issi saaneq lived in what is now Greenland about approximately 214 million years ago (Late Triassic…

Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, an Iqaluit-based Inuk multidisciplinary artist known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance, has won this year's Sobey Art Award for emerging artists. Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is seen in an undated handout photo. Williamson Bathory has been awarded the Sobey Art Award and its $100,000 prize. (Jamie…

Home News Scientists discover hints of ancient life inside a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby. (Image credit: University of Waterloo) Traces of ancient life were locked inside a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby from Greenland, according to a new study. The planet's oldest rubies, sparkling red gemstones made up of a transparent red mineral…