Greenland

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…

"48 Hours" show schedule True-crime. Social justice. Impact. To miss it would be a crime. 21H ago "Once-in-a-lifetime" discovery: Archaeologists find rare Roman statues The statues, discovered while excavating an area for a new high-speed railway, were found in what is believed to be an old Roman mausoleum. 27M ago…

The Cronica universalis, written in Latin by the Milanese friar Galvaneus Flamma (in Italian, Galvano Fiamma, 1283 – c. 1345), contains an astonishing reference to a land named Marckalada (terra que dicitur Marckalada), situated west from Greenland. This land is recognizable as the Markland mentioned by some Icelandic sources and…

Home References A Greenland shark swimming in the St. Lawrence River estuary in Canada. (Image credit: Doug Perrine/Alamy Stock Photo) Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) belong to a family of sharks called sleeper sharks, which move slowly and stealthily through the water. They are the longest-living vertebrates, or animals with backbones,…

Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets—the world’s two largest bodies of ice—are melting at an alarming rate, causing major problems for local ecosystems and coastal communities alike. Now, in yet more evidence that the climate crisis is changing everything in bizarre and profound ways,…