Climate change accelerating ice loss from peripheral glaciers
Greenland’s peripheral glaciers make up only four per cent of the island’s ice cover but are contributing up to 11
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Environment (Denmark/Greenland)
Researchers identify polar bear population that hunts off glacier ice
A genetically distinct polar bear population that hunts off freshwater ice has been identified in Greenland, researchers outline in a
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Blog: Polar opposites? Greenland’s new coalition government
Last month, the Government of Greenland announced [in Danish] a radical change in its makeup. This was the departure of one
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Melting of Greenland glacier generating its own heat and accelerating thaw from base, says study
The melting of a Greenland glacier is, in turn, generating its own heat, and accelerating the rate of thaw of
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Blog: Thawing permafrost: Arctic future on shaky ground bodes ill for the global climate
When I first visited Greenland on a reporting trip in the summer of 2009, my first stop, like that of
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Blog: Radical Arctic warming – rain, rain, here to stay?
Evidence of climate change in the Arctic has been growing for the past few years, including in the form of broken temperature
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Blog: Walk the talk? Can COP26 drive global transformation in time to save the planet?
Will Glasgow’s COP26 be remembered like Copenhagen (disaster) or Paris (breakthrough)? Is the climate glass half empty or half full?
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Greenland to join Paris climate agreement
Greenland marked its intension to join the Paris climate accord on Tuesday by handing a letter to Danish Prime Minister
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Blog: Arctic SOS to Climate COP26 – urgent action needed to avert weather catastrophe
With the final countdown running for the UN climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, the mood is shifting between desperate hope
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Expedition discovers what they believe is world’s northernmost island off Greenland
The yet-to-be-named island is 780 metres north of Oodaaq, the former northernmost island A team of Arctic researchers from Denmark
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Blog – Tipping points: can a leaked report tip the scales to climate action?
I was working through my Twitter feed, fretting about the incredible temperatures in the high north and researching my next
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Greenland accedes to UN treaty against mercury pollution
Greenland has acceded to the UN treaty against mercury pollution, the government said on Wednesday. “The supply of mercury to
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Greenland losing ice faster this century than any previous one in last 12,000 years, says study
Researchers say findings reaffirm need for humans to curb greenhouse gas emissions Humans have to slow down greenhouse gas emissions
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WMO verifies -69.6 C northern hemisphere cold record in Greenland
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized the coldest recorded temperature in the northern hemisphere as being -69.6 C that
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A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap breaks off as Arctic shifts to new climate regime
A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far
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