‘Canary in the coal mine’: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds
Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly
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Environment (Denmark/Greenland)
BLOG – Zackenberg revisited – Greenland climate research station under threat from permafrost thaw
In the remote, high Arctic region of north-eastern Greenland, at 74° North, a scattered group of blue and white buildings
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Greenland and Denmark finalize cooperation agreement on marine pollution response
Greenland and Denmark have made an agreement on environmental preparedness to better respond to environmental incidents in northern waters. The
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New guideline launched for Arctic-specific risk assessment in shipping
A picture of the Arctic Ocean at the 85th parallel north between the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land and
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COVID-19 delay, early ice melt challenge international Arctic science mission
They prepared for icy cold and trained to be on the watch for polar bears, but a pandemic just wasn’t
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International Inuit organization announces youth leadership award winners in honour of Hans-Pavia Rosing
The Inuit Circumpolar Council Council (ICC) announced the recipients of its inaugural youth leadership awards on Monday, recognizing what the
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Questions raised as two species of Arctic seal are spotted in southern Ireland
Two species of seal, whose ranges are typically restricted to the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic, unexpectedly showed up on
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Oldest Arctic sea ice vanishes twice as fast as rest of region, study shows
As the Earth warms up, the Arctic Ocean’s year-round ice cover is reducing at an alarming rate. Over the past
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Blog – Documentary will show climate change through eyes of pioneering scientist
British filmmaker Cal Murphy Barton is producing a documentary about a scientist who has witnessed five decades of Arctic sea
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Greenlanders stay chill as the world reacts to heatwave
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
July at least equalled, and may even have surpassed, being the hottest month in recorded history, says the World Meteorological
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2019 Arctic wildfire season ‘unprecedented’ say experts
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
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
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
Just a few months ago, members of the Atlantic Salmon Federation were celebrating. Initial figures from Greenland showed the salmon
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