Greenland

Accelerated melt. Credit: TiPES/HP Data from the Jakobshavn drainage basin of the Central-Western Greenland ice sheet reveals that the distinct mark of this part of the ice sheet has reached a tipping point. That is the conclusion by Niklas Boers from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany and Martin…

Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Their findings will be used to make more accurate models of the future movement of the world's second-largest ice sheet, as the effects of climate change continue to accelerate.…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken disembarks after landing at Boryspil International airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine May 6, 2021. Efrem Lukatsky/Pool via REUTERS WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Copenhagen, Reykjavik and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, from May 16 to May 20, the State…

Sea levels are going to rise, no matter what. This is certain. But new research I helped produce shows how much we could limit the damage: sea level rise from the melting of ice could be halved this century if we meet the Paris agreement target of keeping global warming…

Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate.   Greenland is purging ice into the ocean. And Earth noticed.  A strange impact of the continuously warming climate is that colossal amounts of ice melting into the planet's oceans have played a prominent…

Features Newsday Reporter 11 Hrs Ago Least sandpiper, semipalmated sandpiper, willet, red knot in this mixed flock of shorebirds was photographed just before they departed for their North American breeding grounds, against a backdrop of resident egrets, herons and a lone scarlet ibis. In the lower right of the frame…

Major Precious Metals Corp. reported results of its independent NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate for the Skaergaard Project in eastern Greenland completed by SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd. This is the culmination of 10 months of continuous, diligent work by SLR and Major Precious Metals. The Indicated Resource estimate is 81.6…

Podcast What has Greenland’s general election got to do with China? Why has Jordan’s royal family split? And who has been stripped of their honours in secret? by The Week team 9 Apr 2021 Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the…

Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where Greenland temperatures rose between 5 and 16 degrees Celsius in decades. When certain parts of the climate system changed, other parts of the climate system followed like a series of dominos toppling in succession.…

China’s ambitions to develop a massive rare-earth mine have run into a maelstrom of local politics in a part of the world the U.S. considers vital to its national security interests. The U.S., China and the European Union have been circling Greenland in recent years as they jockey for influence…