Greenland News

Sara Wheeler thrills to a story of daring in the Arctic and decline back in Britain The story of Gino Watkins is one of the most gripping to emerge from the polar regions.

Europe's environmental outlook for the next century darkened Monday with the release of a climate change study projecting the continent would suffer more from global warming than other parts of the world.

The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

SINGER KT Tunstall has set sail in the Arctic Circle on a starstudded mission to expose global warming.

September 23, 2008 Rubber Ducks being used by NASA to help Track Glaciers The retreat of the Jakobshavn Glacier.

As an organization they're used to investing billions of dollars in scientific experiments that further our knowledge of earth and space.

More than 300 social scientists, government officials and observers from 33 countries gathered in Nuuk, Greenland Aug.

To help figure out what's happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier, a U.S. rocket scientist sent 90 rubber ducks into the ice, hoping someone finds them if they emerge in Baffin Bay.

Climate change has brought new opportunities to Greenland that could secure its independence from Denmark Martin Fletcher Lasse Bjerge lives in a remote, sub-Arctic valley that is flanked by barren mountains, ...

Canadian musicians Feist and Martha Wainwright will be among artists and scientists on board a ship headed to Greenland this month in an expedition that will study the effects of climate change.

The graph above shows daily sea ice extent.The solid light blue line indicates 2008; the dashed green line shows 2007; the dotted line shows 2005; the solid gray line indicates average extent from 1979 to 2000.

Submitted by News Staff on 15 September 2008 - 12:05am. Geology The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but ...

Peter Deilmann's ocean-going vessel MS Deutschland will venture into the waters of the world's northern reaches on a 23-night exploration voyage to Greenland, Iceland and Norway in 2009.

The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.

Sail into a pristine frozen environment, paddle in the ice-studded waters of a fjord and watch fin whales feeding during Flight Centre's yachting adventure.

Greenland is attempting to remove its whale hunt from the jurisdiction of the International Whaling Commission , BBC News has learned.

L'Anse aux Meadows likely marks the first European contact with New World -- 500 years before Columbus More than 1,200 years ago, Vikings from Norway set out on a series of daring voyages that would eventually ...

Artist Sophie Calle will join voyagers on a trip to the Arctic as part of this year's Cape Farewell, a programme bringing artists and scientists together to raise awareness of climate change Natalie Hanman ...

Sea levels globally are very unlikely to rise by more than 2m this century, scientists conclude.

Computer models indicate that while uplift of the Rocky Mountains may have contributed to increased ice cover on Greenland 3 million years ago, this change was small in comparison with the ice sheet that could ...