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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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Greenland joins push to ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic

18 September 201821 September 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments fuel, heavy fuel oil, indigenous, International Maritime Organization, shipping, Water pollution

Environmental and northern Indigenous communities are welcoming the decision by Greenland to push for a ban on the use of

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Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland

12 July 201813 July 2018 Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News 0 Comments Antarctica, climate change, glaciers, glaciology, global warming, Greenland, Helheim Glacier, research, Sea level

All was quiet on June 22 as Canadian husband-and-wife scientists David and Denise Holland settled in for the night off

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Blog – Chasing electric blue icebergs in Greenland

26 September 201726 September 2017 Mia Bennett 0 Comments environment, icebreaker

Last week, China’s sole icebreaker, Xue Long (Snow Dragon), completed its first voyage through the Northwest Passage. The Ukrainian-built vessel

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Ice-Blog: Greenland on the horizon

4 August 20174 August 2017 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments climate change, ice, research, Science

When I first visited Greenland back in 2009, it was not a place that made the news very often. This

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Ice-Blog: Greenland earthquake and tsunami – hazards of melting ice?

22 June 2017 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments climate change, earthquake, flood, Nuugaatsiaq, research, Science, tsunami

Following the news over the weekend with a trip to Greenland this summer at the back of my mind, my

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