Tag: Greenland

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Study shows Greenland ice melting might become irreversible soon

  

  A new study released Monday by the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has warned that due to the rising temperatures, the destabilization of icy central-western areas of Greenland has already begun and that melting could then continue in the current global warming scenario.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Huge calving at the Arctic ice shelf: the massive chunk is larger than Paris

  

  A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said on Monday. The 113 sq km block broke off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in Northeast Greenland, which the scientists said had been expected given the rising average temperatures.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

  Trump's attempt to purchase Greenland, puts the Arctic in the geostrategic global map

  

  President Donald Trump's reported wish to buy Greenland may have been rejected by Denmark, but it underscores the rapidly rising value of the massive, ice-covered island due to global warming and to China's drive for an Arctic presence.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Global sea levels rising higher than forecasted because of ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica

  

  Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica, The long-held view has been that the world's seas would rise by a maximum of just under a meter by 2100.

• Monday, March 4th 2019 - 08:00 UTC

  EU discusses future partnership of Overseas Territories in Tahiti

  

  At a meeting on Friday in Papeete (Tahiti) in French Polynesia, the EU discussed its future partnership with the Overseas Countries and Territories and signed five cooperation programmes with them totalling €44 million.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 06:19 UTC

  Cold 'blob' in part of North Atlantic Ocean puzzles scientists

  

  Over the past few months, scientists have been trying to explain an area of very cold temperatures in a part of the North Atlantic Ocean. In fact, when the rest of the world was recording above average highs in temperature, making the year the hottest to-date, this part of the Atlantic was cold. The area is being called the Atlantic “blob.”

• Thursday, August 16th 2012 - 19:37 UTC

  Ship linked to Captain Scott’s failed South Pole expedition found off Greenland

  

  The wreck of the ship that carried Captain Robert Scott on his doomed expedition to the Antarctic a century ago has been discovered off Greenland. The SS Terra Nova was found by a team from a US research company.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  Greenland’s massive ice sheet “unprecedented” melt puzzles Nasa scientists

  

  Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an usually large area, Nasa has said. Scientists said the “unprecedented” melting took place over a larger area that ever detected in three decades of satellite observation.

• Monday, March 19th 2012 - 06:49 UTC

  Greenland’s ice sheet melting much faster that forecasted

  

  Greenland’s ice sheet is more sensitive to global warming than previously thought, according to Spanish and German researchers. The ice sheet may lose its ability to grow once warming reaches 1.6 degrees, a study published in Nature Climate Change found.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 11:24 UTC

  Bowhead whales from Greenland and Alaska mingle along the Arctic passage

  

  Bowhead whales, the giants of the Arctic, are using the Northwest Passage to move across the top of the Americas. Skeletons, DNA samples and harpoon heads have all suggested that bowhead populations living on each side of the continent did meet and mingle.