Greenland

A recent study of high-quality ice cores taken from central north Greenland has shown that global warming has well and truly reached the island. The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) researchers found the years from 2001 to 2011 were the warmest in the island’s…

The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through…

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years, according to new ice core data. Until now Greenland ice cores -- a glimpse into long-running temperatures before thermometers --…

Aging is a relative thing. Species like the Labord’s chameleon in Madagascar live their entire lives fast and glorious, spending only four months outside of their eggs before death. The coral reef pygmy goby, meanwhile, only lives an estimated eight weeks.   But other vertebrates take the long road, living for…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert because A & S Produce Inc., of Vernon, CA, establishment conducting business as Greenland Food Company, produced and distributed fully cooked, frozen swai fried fish cutlet products without the benefit of federal inspection. …

Home News In this aerial view, icebergs and meltwater are seen in front of the retreating Russell Glacier on Sept. 8, 2021 near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. (Image credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images) Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated, according to a new model that takes into account the…

By ZeroHedge - Dec 13, 2022, 12:00 PM CST Europe's cold blast is due to a weak, polar vortex split in the stratosphere. The unseasonably cold weather will continue through this week. Even though significant progress was made to refill storage in an unusually warm autumn, cold snaps will draw…

A two million-year-old trunk from a larch tree is stuck in the permafrost within the coastal deposits at Kap Kobenhavn, Greenland. The tree was carried to the sea by the rivers that eroded the former forested landscape. Scientists have analyzed 2-million-year-old DNA extracted from dirt samples in the area, revealing…

By ZeroHedge - Dec 09, 2022, 2:00 PM CST An arctic blast is sweeping across Europe. Latest forecasts show average temperatures across Northwest Europe could fall to around 27 degrees Fahrenheit. The cold weather snap is weighing on European gas inventories, sending energy prices higher. A continuing cold blast across…

TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / December 9, 2022 / Amaroq Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:AMRQ)(NASDAQ First North:AMRQ)(AIM:AMRQ), an independent mine development company with a substantial land package of gold and strategic mineral assets covering an area of 7,866.85 km2 in Southern Greenland, announces that it has engaged Arion banki hf. ("Arion Bank")…