Greenland expedition discovers world’s northernmost island by accident
It's formed by soil and rock left behind by glaciers.
It's formed by soil and rock left behind by glaciers.
Another worrying sign of the climate crisis
Greenland is much hotter than normally.
It raises the possibility that other melting glaciers are behaving the same way.
Researchers find million-year-old plants in frozen ice core.
That’s a high margin of error.
Sounds like a long time, but we have our work cut out for ourselves.
The lake bed could be millions of years old, formed at a time when Greenland was still green.
This is enough to raise global sea levels 2.2 millimeters in two months.
This rate is in line with the worst-case scenario set by UN climate experts.
On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause 100 million people to be flooded each year by 2100.
Investment idea: pool air mattresses.
Good thing we didn't call it Iceland, right?!
"Our results show a clear link in the timing of animal recovery and the recovery of Earth systems."
Our planet has received its fair share of visitors along the years. This one has been hiding under Greenland's thick ...
In the past 20 years, Greenland's ice sheet has been melting at six-fold the rate seen before the Industrial Revolution.
A meteorite might have slammed into the island as early as 12,000 years ago.
The debate is far from over, though.
Turns out a one-trick economy never lasts long.
The deal was made possible by the efforts of the Atlantic Salmon Federation and North Atlantic Salmon Fund.
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