Greenland

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…

Home News Science & Astronomy The Hiawatha impact crater in Greenland, as depicted by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. (Image credit: NASA) Hidden under Greenland's thick ice sheet, scientists found what they thought was the scar of an asteroid impact perhaps just thousands of years old, fresh enough that humans were…

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks at a ceremony to apologise to six Greenlandic Inuit who were separated from their families more than 70 years ago. (Liselotte Sabroe / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) Denmark's prime minister on Wednesday delivered a face-to-face apology to six living victims of a 1950s social…

Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Poul Christoffersen The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower. Researchers have observed extremely high rates of melting at the bottom of the…

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Greenland has sold off the final two phases of the Ram Quarter Mainland Chinese developers continue to wind down their overseas holdings with the UK unit of Shanghai Greenland Group revealing to Mingtiandi that it has sold off the final two phases of a project which it purchased for £135.7…

Home News Streams and rivers cut through the Greenland ice sheet, pouring water into the Arctic Ocean. (Image credit: NASA Goddard) The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and the toll on Greenland's massive ice sheet is becoming achingly clear. According to new satellite data compiled…

Sea ice is seen breaking up on the southern coast of Greenland, March 12, 2018. — Reuters pic COPENHAGEN, Feb 1 — Greenland’s immense ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to submerge the entire United States in half a metre of water, according to data…