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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced late Friday the long-awaited winners of the city-state’s digital bank licences. A Grab-Singtel tie-up and Sea Ltd have received permits to form digital full banks, while Ant Group and a Greenland Financial consortium landed digital wholesale bank licences. The consortium led by Greenland…

(Xinhua) Chinese action crime film "Caught in Time" continued to lead the Chinese mainland's daily box office chart on Wednesday, raking in about 22.52 million yuan (3.4 million U.S. dollars).The movie's total box office revenue reached 280 million yuan within six days after its release, data from the China Movie…

(Variety) Hong Kong-produced “Caught in Time” gave fresh life to the mainland China box office over its opening weekend.The fantasy crime thriller about a cop chasing a gang through different eras earned $30.3 million. Produced by Emperor Motion Picture, the film stars the popular Daniel Wu and Wang Qianyuan, and…

Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise by more than 7 metres. But that’s not going to happen is it? Well not any time soon, but understanding how…

A possible subterranean river flows from the deep interior of Greenland to Petermann Fjord, suggests a paper published in The Cryosphere. A possible subglacial valley and river deep below the surface of Greenland. Image credit: Chambers et al., doi: 10.5194/tc-14-3747-2020. “The Greenland bedrock data indicate that a subglacial valley extends…

Home News Petermann is one of Greenland's largest glaciers, lodged in a fjord that, from the height of its mountain walls down to the lowest point of the seafloor, is deeper than the Grand Canyon. (Image: © Whitney Shefte / The Washington Post via Getty Images) A giant underground river…

Radar surveys have previously mapped Greenland’s bedrock buried underneath a few thousand meters of ice. Mathematical models were used to fill in the gaps in survey data and infer bedrock depths. However, the reviews uncovered the long valley, which was segmented, preventing water from flowing freely through it.  Be that…

A team of scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University has discovered paleolake basin situated beneath the ice sheet in northwest Greenland; geomorphological analysis and hydrological modeling indicate that the basin once hosted a lake with a surface area of up to 7,100 km2 and a volume of up…

Leidy Glacier in NW Greenland. Image: NASA GoddardScientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under a mile of ice in Greenland, providing a glimpse of what the remote region looked like in the past—and how it might look in a future shaped by human-driven climate change.The bygone lake once covered…

Home News NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft spies the Upper Baffin Bay coast on March 27, 2017, above Greenland. (Image: © Mario Tama/Getty Images) Rapid melt is reshaping coastal Greenland, potentially altering the human and animal ecosystems along the country's coast. New research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth…