Greenland

The vast Greenland ice sheet is melting at some of its fastest rates in the past 12,000 years. And it could quadruple over the next 80 years if greenhouse gas emissions don’t decline dramatically in the coming decades. Research published yesterday in the journal Nature warns that the ice sheet’s future losses depend…

Sea level: Greenland ice loss worst in 12,000 years Ice loss from Greenland’s massive ice sheet will cause sea levels to rise more during the 21st century than they have during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years, even if global warming is held in check, scientists said Wednesday.…

Infographic describing the study’s findings. Credit: Bob Wilder / University at Buffalo The research places the ice sheet’s modern decline in historical context, providing a robust look at how this century’s losses could starkly outpace prior changes. If human societies don’t sharply curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Greenland’s rate of…

After multiple delays, the Gerard Butler-led “Greenland” is skipping a theatrical release and will be coming to Amazon Prime Video via PVOD – first to buy on October 13th and then rent from October 27th reports Den of Geek. The plan was to originally open the film theatrically last week,…

Hudson Resources Inc. has closed its debt restructuring transaction with its existing lenders, Cordiant Capital Inc. and its affiliates and Romeo Fund Flexi and its affiliates, after receiving shareholder approval and approval from the government of Greenland. Hudson had a 100% interest in a producing anorthosite industrial mineral mine is…

The coldest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere was recorded in Greenland in 1991. That temperature, first documented by the UW–Madison Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, was just confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization. Credit: NASA Nearly 30 years after recording a temperature of minus 93.2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 69.6 Celsius) in…

Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer Updated 4:21 pm CDT, Monday, September 21, 2020 FILE - Sea ice breaks apart as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica traverses the Northwest Passage through the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in a Friday, July 21, 2017 file photo. The National Snow and Ice…

I was born on the summer solstice in an age without a name.My parents were born in a previous geological epoch. Six unknowing months before the start of the Great Depression, my father arrived. His given name was Richard, but as soon as his hair came in, he was Red.…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.The glacier section that broke off is 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles). It came off of the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which…

A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far northeast Arctic.Scientists say it is evidence of rapid climate change.The glacier section broke off the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which is roughly 80km long and 20km wide, the National Geological Survey…