Greenland expedition discovers world’s northernmost island by accident
It's formed by soil and rock left behind by glaciers.
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Rain falls on Greenland’s snowy summit for the first time on record
Another worrying sign of the climate crisis
Greenland heatwave triggers melting — enough to cover Florida with 2 inches of water
Greenland is much hotter than normally.
The Greenland Ice Sheet is leaking mercury — likely natural, but still dangerous
It raises the possibility that other melting glaciers are behaving the same way.
Study finds Greenland ice-sheet has already melted before – and it could again
Researchers find million-year-old plants in frozen ice core.
New projections warn that Greenland’s ice sheet will see 60% more melt than we’ve estimated
That’s a high margin of error.
Greenland’s ice sheet is poised to melt forever — we have 600 years to stop it
Sounds like a long time, but we have our work cut out for ourselves.
Scientists discover huge fossil lake under Greenland
The lake bed could be millions of years old, formed at a time when Greenland was still green.
Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice last summer, satellite data shows
This is enough to raise global sea levels 2.2 millimeters in two months.
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s
This rate is in line with the worst-case scenario set by UN climate experts.
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s
On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause 100 million people to be flooded each year by 2100.
Greenland set to accelerate sea level change in the near future
Investment idea: pool air mattresses.
Our emissions could melt all the ice in Greenland by the year 3000 — and raise sea levels by 24 ft
Good thing we didn't call it Iceland, right?!
Arctic ecosystems “highly responsive” to climate change — and very hard to fix once broken
"Our results show a clear link in the timing of animal recovery and the recovery of Earth systems."
NASA finds a second huge impact crater beneath Greenland’s ice sheet
Our planet has received its fair share of visitors along the years. This one has been hiding under Greenland's thick ...
Greenland melting is ‘off the charts’ — It’s unprecedented in the last 400 years, scientists warn
In the past 20 years, Greenland's ice sheet has been melting at six-fold the rate seen before the Industrial Revolution.
Scientists find huge 19-mile impact crater under Greenland’s ice sheet
A meteorite might have slammed into the island as early as 12,000 years ago.
‘Earliest evidence of life’ may just be really old rock
The debate is far from over, though.
Ivory trade made Greenland great, then barren again
Turns out a one-trick economy never lasts long.
Greenland, Faroe Islands to stop commercial fishing of wild salmon for 12 years
The deal was made possible by the efforts of the Atlantic Salmon Federation and North Atlantic Salmon Fund.