Blog: Landmark UCLA study reveals melting of Greenland ice sheet from top to bottom
Many scientists have studied how the glaciers and big chunks of ice breaking off the edges of the Greenland ice sheet are
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Environment (Denmark/Greenland)
Blog: Arctic oil and gas must stay in ground to restrict warming to 2°C says study
Scientists have realized for some time now that the extraction of fossil fuels must dramatically slow down if the global
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Lego cuts ties with Shell after Greenpeace campaign
Danish toy-maker Lego announced on Wednesday it was cutting ties with Royal Dutch Shell after an extended campaign by the
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Soot from Canadian wildfires may have increased Greenland ice melt
Researchers studying Greenland’s massive ice-sheet are making some worrisome findings. Danish-born glaciologist Jason Box who has studied glaciers for two-decades
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – The muskox economy
“I just had muskox Thai curry at the only restaurant in town,” I messaged my friend after dinner one night
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – From the glacier to the sea
The Greenland Ice Sheet is constantly in flux and is far from static. The world’s second largest body of ice
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – The road to the ice
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 81 percent of the country’s terrain and is the second-largest body of ice in the
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – A glacier calves
Part of Russell Glacier just east of the road from Kangerlussuaq up to the ice sheet collapsed into the river
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Ice-Blog: Polar melt confirmed from space
I am disappointed that there was so little mainstream media coverage (please correct me if I am wrong) of a
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – Day 1
In popular imaginings, the Greenland ice sheet is one big, white, flat, frozen piece of ice. That perception is natural
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Long-term warming inside Greenland’s ice sheet
In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis
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Ice-Blog: Keeping Greenland in focus
Two interesting publications relating to Greenland caught my eye over the past few days. But it has not proved easy
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Soot, heat combined to create unusual melt on Greenland’s ice sheet
The 10,521-foot summit of Greenland’s desolate ice sheet was the site of a rare phenomenon in 2012 — the top
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Ice-Blog: Cryosphere in Crisis?
You can’t say the latest research results on the thinning of the West Antarctic ice sheet didn’t make the media.
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Natural forces team up with human-caused warming to bake Greenland/Canadian Arctic:study
A portion of eastern Arctic Canada and neighboring Greenland has baked the past 30 years, heating up at a rate
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