Greenland

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…

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NUUK: Her traditional hand and face markings a sign of Inuit pride, Seqininnguaq Lynge Poulsen is part of a new generation in Greenland seeking a fresh cultural identity with an eye to independence one day. In Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory in the Arctic holding legislative elections on Tuesday, almost…

Enormous lakes atop the Greenland ice sheet have a habit of suddenly vanishing: One moment they’re there, and the next they’re rapidly draining through holes in the ice. Some scientists believe these events can increase the rate at which ice is being lost into the ocean. That’s a big concern…

Lakes form on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet each summer as the weather warms. They exist for weeks or months but can drain in a matter of hours due to hydrofracturing, transferring millions of cubic meters of water and heat to the base of the ice sheet. Now,…