Greenland

A portrait of three intrepid glaciologists brings the reality of climate change and glacial melting into sharp focus in this powerful documentary Humans 6 April 2022 By Davide Abbatescianni Leading glaciologist Alun Hubbard descends into a seemingly bottomless crevasse Courtesy of CPH:DOX 2022 Into the Ice Lars Henrik Ostenfeld CPH:DOX…

Declining temperature has been thought to explain the abandonment of Norse settlements in southern Greenland in the early 15th century CE, although limited evidence is available from the inner settlement region itself. In a new study, scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and elsewhere reconstructed the temperature and hydroclimate…

Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history. According to the University of Copenhagen physicists behind the research, these eruptions can teach us about our planet’s sensitivity to climate change.…

LC-130 Hercules aircraft will have a smoother takeoff from Antarctica and Greenland thanks to the 109th Maintenance Squadron. Propulsion specialists with the 109th assembled the first Air National Guard-built T56 3.5 turbo engine. The 3.5 modification is part of an Air Force initiative to update C-130 aircraft. The 109th’s engine…

Greenland’s near default didn’t prevent Zhang Yuliang’s re-appointment as chairman last month In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, fresh details emerge about how Shanghai-based developer Greenland dodged default with government help, the slump in China home prices accelerates despite easing measures, and investors clear the way for PropertyGuru’s SPAC-led…

Home News Researchers studying Greenland's Hiawatha crater conducted research at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019. (Image credit: Pierre Beck) (opens in new tab)Scientists now know the age of an enormous impact crater hidden under Greenland's ice.  The Hiawatha crater, which sits under 0.6 mile (1 kilometer)…

The 31-km- (19.2-mile) wide Hiawatha impact structure is located beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwestern Greenland. Photo from fieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019. Image credit: Pierre Beck. The Hiawatha impact crater was formed by a 1-km- (0.6-mile) wide iron asteroid. First discovered in 2015, the…

The massive 19-mile-wide Hiawatha crater underneath the northwestern ice sheet in Greenland is millions of years older than previously thought, according to new research published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Science Advances. The crater, which is big enough to swallow Washington, D.C., was first discovered in 2015 and presumed to have formed…

Photo from fieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019. Credit: Pierre Beck Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite impacted after the appearance…

Denmark’s prime minister on Wednesday (March 9) delivered a face-to-face apology to six living victims of a 1950s social experiment in which 22 Greenlandic children were taken from their families and sent to Denmark to be integrated into Danish society. The Inuit children were between four and nine years old…