Greenland News
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Earlier this month the NOAA and NASA announced that 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded, shattering the previous records in 2005 and 2010.
Now comes the news that global warming is heating the world's oceans at an unprecedented pace.
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Copenhage -
Denmark will lay claim to energy-rich but contested territory around the North Pole on Monday by submitting data to the UN which it says demonstrates the area is an extension of its continental shelf.
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While many of the stereotypical myths about Vikings being marauding adventurers have been proven to be just that, myths, there is one truth that is well documented. They knew how to win friends and influence people when they settled in a new land.
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Copenhagen -
Greenland's ruling Siumut party narrowly won a snap election called after it became embroiled in a graft scandal, results showed on Saturday, but it faced tough negotiations to form the next government to lead the vast Arctic island.
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Copenhagen -
Greenland's government has called an election for November 28 after an expenses scandal prompted Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond to step down as leader of her party.
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German researchers have been able to map the heights of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps with far greater precision than ever before. Observations and data show the ice caps are melting much faster than previously thought.
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The rapid warming of Greenland's glaciers has been documented for a number of years, but atmospheric scientists at the University of Washington estimate that up to half of the warming in Greenland and other areas may be from natural causes.
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Scientists have mapped a previously unknown canyon entombed below two kilometers of ice in Greenland. The discovery was made by a group of scientists from Bristol University’s School of Geographical Sciences in the UK.
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At 10,530 feet above sea level and deep inside the Arctic Circle, NASA could hardly find a more inhospitable place to test its new rover than Summit Camp, Greenland. After one month in the snow and sub-freezing temperatures, GROVER is still functioning.
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A group of plants frozen for 400 years have been observed sprouting new growth after being exposed to air and sunlight, scientists say. They brought back to life a collection of plants recovered from melting glaciers in the Canadian Arctic.
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A video clip of a new film captures the moment an iceberg in Greenland begins to calve, making it the largest iceberg calving ever to be captured on film.
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A giant iceberg which broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland is now on its way to the sea. Shipping may be affected.
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Nuuk -
NASA scientists say that in July, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a more extensive area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observation. Measurements show that Greenland ice cover has experienced unprecedented degree of melting.
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According to scientists, an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier, The Associated Press reports.
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The four Greenpeace activists who had set themselves up for a stay, hanging from the rigging of oil drilling rig, Stena Don, surrendered to police Thursday.
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Greenpeace activists said they eluded tight security and gained access to the deepwater drilling ship, the Stena Don, which is anchored between Greenland and Canada in 'iceberg alley' while drilling an exploratory oil well.
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Researchers have been watching the environment change in Greenland for some time. Now, however, they've noted the largest ice sheet in 50 years is breaking off from the island and moving south where it could interfere with shipping.
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NASA reported last week that a massive chunk of Greenland glacial ice was lost as it broke up and fell into the ocean. The loss of the ice meant the glacier retreated one mile overnight.
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Greenland is rising. The big melt is taking a lot of weight off the crust, resulting in the coastal land surface movement as millions of tons of ice dissolves. What’s bothering scientists is they can literally see it happening.
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A study recently published in Science concluded that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at a quicker pace than previously. Consequently, it is making an increasing contribution to sea level rise.
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Greenland is celebrating its latest push towards independence from Denmark under whose rule it has been since the 18th century. As it celebrated its national day on June 21, Greenland launched into a new era of self-governance.
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A study in the journal Science has found that the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would change the focus of the planet's gravitational field and sea levels would rise disproportionately around North America and the Indian Ocean.
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Climate change is happening more rapidly than anyone thought possible, the German government's expert, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, warned.
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This will be interesting. Greenland, one of the biggest separate land masses on Earth, has voted for self rule, which is autonomy, not actual independence. The vote comes at a time when the Arctic is being considered a new frontier for resources.
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New studies have found that most of the Greenland's glaciers are melting at an increasing rate. Even glaciers in Northern Greenland which seemed to be immune from global warming have started developing huge cracks.
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With so many nations looking to capitalize on the vast wealth of natural resources of Greenland it would be difficult for a new state, which is already facing drastic changes due to Global Warming, to safeguard its resources.
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The ice bridge that once connected Uunartoq Qegertop to the mainland of Greenland seems to come and go with what is in historical and geological terms the blink of an eye.
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A new NASA study confirms the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air temperatures, and fuelling loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout the mass beneath.
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A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet.
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The 2007 melting rate of the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 per cent, making it the largest ever decrease since satellite measurements began in 1979.
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Greenland Image
Canyons and Glaciers Along the Northwest Coast of Greenland.
Photo taken: July 13, 2012. NASA/Michael Studinger
"An ice sheet covers almost all of Greenland—about 1.7 million square kilometers (650,000 square miles). It holds so much ice that if it were to melt away entirely, global sea level would rise 7 meters (23 feet)," as NASA writes. NASA
A river in Greenland augmented by ice melt: The river that runs through Kanger, called Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua in Greenlandic, but also known as Watson River. This river is very milky looking because it is formed by melt-water from the ice sheet. The grey river banks are not ice, but rocks now exposed John Maurer, University of Colorado
An iceberg gradually breaks away from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. NASA
An iceberg gradually breaks away from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. NASA
The graph above shows the daily extent of melt during 2012 on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface as a percentage, compared to the average from 1981 to 2010. National Snow & Ice Data Center/University of Georgia
Pictured are Jens, Sim, Timo and Matt, the four activists who halted offshore exploratory drilling by hanging from the Stena Don for 40 hours. Greenpeace
Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt. Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8 (left) and July 12 (right) Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory
A glacier near Greeland, carving into a fjord banyanman
Ruins in Greenland. screen grab
Satellite image showing ice melt in Greenland NASA
On the Greenland ice sheet at point T05, one of the main validation sites staffed by UK scientists. Note the corner reflector used for airborne altimeter calibration. ESA
The Petermann Glacier grinds and slides toward the sea along the northwestern coast of Greenland, terminating in a giant floating ice tongue. NASA Images
Iceberg in Greenland Chasing Ice
An iceberg gradually breaks away from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. NASA
The Greenland Shark is native to the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean around Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program
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