Greenland

Satellite imagesA big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden - in north-east Greenland.The ejected section covers about 110 square km; satellite imagery shows it to have shattered into many small pieces.The loss is further evidence say scientists of the…

Israel announces second national coronavirus lockdown Israel is preparing to impose a new national lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, beginning on Friday and lasting for at least three weeks. The restrictions, which overlap with important Jewish festivals, will “exact a heavy price on us all”, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.…

A Greenland shark photographed at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet in Nunavut, Canada, in 2007. Hemming1952/Wikimedia CommonsGreenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrate species on the planet. One study found that they could live nearly 400 years.These Arctic sharks can reach lengths of up to 24 feet and can…

Susanna Clarke is the author of two literary legends. The first is fictional. In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, her 2004 debut novel, Clarke created an alternative England where magicians conjure warships out of the rain and walk through mirrors. The eponymous Strange and Norrell are gentleman scholars (and rivals)…

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has been losing mass for several decades due to increased surface meltwater runoff and ablation of marine-terminating outlet glaciers via calving and submarine melting ice discharge. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at accelerated rates, making it the largest single contributor to rising sea…

00:20 Qaanaaq is one 00:22 of the most northerly settlements on earth. 00:25 And after months of darkness and Arctic storms, 00:28 the ocean turns from ice to water almost 00:37 just before our President tried to buy Greenland, 00:43 and I was thinking about 00:45 how far away that…

I loathe the cold and love the warm. Who doesn’t? I grew up in Ireland where spring and winter were always very cold. In the 1950s, central heating was rare. We stayed warm by burning coal in open grates and used kerosene oil in a heater. Many nights, we children…

The Greenland Ice Sheet is one of the largest potential contributors to global mean sea level rise if global warming continues to increase: Getty ImagesHigh temperatures saw Greenland lose enough ice to cover the US state of California in more than four feet of water in 2019 alone, a study…

During the Last Glacial Period some 11,500 years ago, Greenland went through massive changes called interstadial events. Then, it quickly oscillated between lower and higher temperatures, which melted and then refroze (and then melted again) massive ice sheets in the region. Geological records appear to show that around the same time that…

Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 1.25 metres of water, a new study said.According to a study released on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra…