Denmark/Greenland

Greenlanders stay chill as the world reacts to its heatwave

12 August 201916 August 2019 Katie Toth, CBC News 0 Comments climate change, global warming, heat, ice, media, weather

It’s not the warm days from a summer heat wave over Greenland that stress out Taatsi Pedersen. Rather, it’s how

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July may surpass hottest month in recorded history says World Meteorological Organization

5 August 20195 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Alaska, Canada, climate change, Copernicus Climate Change Programme, Russia, Siberia, weather, wildfires

July at least equalled, and may even have surpassed, being the hottest month in recorded history, says the World Meteorological

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Greenland issues new exploration, prospecting licences to Anglo American

1 August 20191 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Avannaata municipality, copper, Erik Jensen, mining, Ministry of Mineral Resources and Labour, nickel, platinum group metals, politics, Upernavik

Greenland’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Labour has granted British multinational Anglo American a series of licences in western Greenland.

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2019 Arctic wildfire season ‘unprecedented’ say experts

30 July 20192 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Alaska, Canada, climate change, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, emissions, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Russia, Siberia, vegetation

June and July are shaping up to be the most intense Arctic wildfire periods on record with blazes raging everywhere

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What Arctic ice can tell us about plagues, climate and conflict in the Middle Ages

18 July 201919 July 2019 Emily Blake, CBC News 0 Comments climate, ice, Middle Ages, Plagues, pollution

New research is revealing how plagues, wars and the climate affected the economy of Medieval Europe. But researchers didn’t find

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Bizarre skull belongs to first known beluga-narwhal hybrid

21 June 201921 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments animals, beluga, marine mammals, narwhal, whales, wildlife

Modern DNA technology has confirmed a strange-looking whale skull with weird, twisted teeth collected by a hunter decades ago belongs

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Greenland Atlantic salmon catch numbers well above new quota

3 April 20195 April 2019 CBC News 1 Comment fish, fisheries, fishing, quotas, salmon

Just a few months ago, members of the Atlantic Salmon Federation were celebrating. Initial figures from Greenland showed the salmon

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Tall ice cliffs are slumping and may trigger rapid sea-level rise, study finds

1 April 20191 April 2019 Priscilla Hwang, CBC News 0 Comments Antarctica, climate change, global warming, Helheim Glacier, ice melt, Sea level

Scientists have found that tall ice cliffs in Greenland are slumping — and this may eventually lead to a more

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Evidence of powerful solar storm which occurred 2,600 years ago found in Greenland ice

20 March 201920 March 2019 Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News 0 Comments disasters, ice, solar storm, space, sun

Scientists have found evidence of a major solar storm that hit Earth more than 2,600 years ago — a finding

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Greenland ice cores reveal historic climate clues, says study

18 February 201922 February 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Antarctic, Arctic, British Antarctic Survey, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge and the

Scientists have linked past sea ice reductions to some of history’s most extreme climate change events in the North Atlantic,

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Climate change could unleash Greenland sand bonanza, say researchers

13 February 201915 February 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 1 Comment business, construction, exports, glaciers, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, nstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research, research, Science, University of Colorado Boulder

The sediment left behind as climate change melts Greenland’s glaciers could provide unexpected export opportunities for the territory as the

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Faster ice melt in Greenland could mean stronger hurricanes for North America’s East Coast: study

23 January 201923 January 2019 Priscilla Hwang, CBC News 0 Comments climate change, Glacier, Greenland, hurricanes, ice melt, iceberg, Sea level

Ice is melting in an unexpected region of Greenland at a rate that is unprecedented in the past century, according

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Increasing ocean acidification ushering era of uncertainty for Arctic, says report

11 October 201812 October 2018 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 2 Comments Alaska, Arctic Biodiveristy Congress, Arctic Council, Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment, Canada, climate change, fisheries, indigenous, pollution

If left unchecked, acidification levels in the Arctic Ocean will have significant consequences for northern communities as well as the

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Binding agreement on Arctic fisheries moratorium officially signed by EU and nine countries

3 October 20185 October 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic Ocean, fisheries, fishing, indigenous, Inuit, nature, oceans

Canada, the European Union and eight other countries signed Wednesday a legally binding international accord that will protect nearly three

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Nine countries and EU set to sign ‘historic’ agreement to protect Central Arctic Ocean

2 October 20183 October 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Arctic Ocean, fishing, Greenland, indigenous, Inuit

Officials from five Arctic countries and five major distant fishing powers are meeting in Greenland Wednesday to sign a legally

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