Greenland

Startup shipping Arctic ice to Dubai bars from Greenland

Technology
Michael Johnson

A Greenland start-up is being accused of doing titanic damage to the environment by shipping ice from glaciers over 100,000 years old ...

Global warming is making Greenland greener

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Global warming is turning Greenland green. Parts of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers that melted over the past three decades have been ...

Greenland Is Getting Taller

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

As the world’s ice sheets melt, Greenland is getting taller in a process known as glacial isostatic rebound. Live Science describes ...

Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit ...

Scientists reveal how Greenland Ice Sheet has shrunk over past four decades

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 5,091 sq km (1930 sq miles) of area between 1985 and ...

The more scientists study Greenland, the worse its ice melt looks

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

The Greenland ice sheet has lost about 1,965 square miles to glacial retreat since 1985, a new study says. That’s an area ...

Meltwater is infiltrating Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its structure

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

I’m striding along the steep bank of a raging white-water torrent, and even though the canyon is only about the width of ...

Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. ...

Thousands of Greenland’s glaciers are rapidly shrinking. Before-and-after photos reveal decades of change

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

When Laura Larocca visited Denmark in 2019, the climate scientist sifted through thousands of old aerial photographs of Greenland’s icy coastline, which ...

Greenland Glaciers Melting 5x Faster Than 20 Years Ago

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Danish researchers have conducted a comprehensive study revealing a dramatic increase in Greenland’s glacier melting over the past 20 years, five times ...