Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers

With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.

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Greenland's melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace

Suddenly and without warning, the gigantic river of ice sped up, causing it to spit icebergs ever faster into the ocean off southeastern Greenland.

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Left-wing party defeats Greenland government

Greenland was preparing for a power shift Wednesday after a left-wing opposition party defeated the long-governing Social Democrats in a key vote as the ice-capped island gains more autonomy from Denmark.

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Greenland to hold parliamentary elections in June

Greenland's premier has called elections for June 2, saying he wants voters to decide who will govern the semiautonomous Danish territory once it gets more say in own affairs.

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Greenlanders vote for expanding autonomy

Greenland voters overwhelmingly approved a plan to seek more autonomy from Denmark and take advantage of oil reserves that may lie off the glacial island, official results showed Wednesday.

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Dreaming of oil, Greenland votes on more autonomy

Dreaming of oil wealth, Greenland voters are expected to decide in a nonbinding referendum Tuesday to extend the island's self rule in what many see as a key step toward independence from Denmark.

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Greenland Speaker Quits Over Grope Claim

The speaker of Greenland's parliament has resigned amid allegations that he groped a female civil servant.

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Greenland to Vote on Greater Autonomy

Greenland will hold a referendum in November on greater autonomy from Denmark in what many residents hope could become a step toward full independence, the Arctic island's prime minister said Thursday.

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Oldest chunk of Earth's crust ever found

A sheeted dike complex with sharp, well-defined chilled margins. These are signature traits of an ophiolite – a piece of oceanic crust embedded within a continent. In a sheeted dike complex, younger magma intrusions, or “dikes” cut across older ones, forming a rock made up exclusively of dikes (Image: Science)

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Major climate change report looks set to alarm

The most important report on the science of climate change for six years is set for release on Friday 2 February, and leaks suggest it will be an alarming read.

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Greenland Glaciers Melting at Faster Rate

Warmer temperatures over the past decade have sped up the march of Greenland's southern glaciers to the Atlantic Ocean, where the ice and water they spill contribute more to the global rise in sea levels than previously thought.

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Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.

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Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. ............................................ Professor Jonathan Bamber fro …

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Greenland, which is a part of Denmark now with home rule government, will be severely affected by climate change. [...] Therefore it sounds like a joke when Greenland wants to emit 14 times more CO2 per citizen. It would mean 170 tons pr.citizen.

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Greenland and Canada have agreed to work together to co-manage their joint polar bear population.

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Disko Bay lay glinting with ice on the bright afternoon we sailed in. Bergs as big as buses floated among others the size of houses.

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Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has defended his government's stance in the controversial case of 22 children from Greenland.

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The British Antarctic Survey has released dramatic images of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets that have been been created using satellite lasers.

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Huge find of rare earth metals in southwestern Greenland. Will pose significant challenge to China's near-monopoly of the natural resources critical to many hi-tech industries, including national defense. Australian firm set to develop the Greenland site.

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New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.

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Here is a story about climate change - although not about global warming. And if it's not a story about Danes and Copenhagen, then it's still a story about Scandinavians. It's a story that I first heard about long ago, in a bout of childish illness, on the radio.

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The country's Home Rule Government does not feel adequately represented by Denmark in the climate change negotiations and considers turning its back on the host country of December's UN conference.

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Greenlandic politicians are up in arms over their colleagues' drug use, which is widespread according to opposition MP Doris Jakobsen. "I have heard loads of times that members of both the government and the parliament smoke hashish," Doris Jakobsen told Sermitsiaq.

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The Greenland shark, one of the largest species of sharks, is a nuisance to fishermen and its meat is toxic to humans, but researchers now hope the flesh can be used to create a biofuel for Inuits.

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Arctic nations are promising to avoid new "Cold War" scrambles linked to climate change, but military activity is stirring in a polar region where a thaw may allow oil and gas exploration or new shipping routes.

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Greenland experienced its most powerful earthquake in several years yesterday in the northwest part of the country

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Greenland celebrated the beginning of Self Rule from Denmark yesterday.

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On Sunday, amid solemn ceremony and giddy celebration, it ushered in a new era of self-governance that sets the stage for eventual independence from Denmark, its ruler since 1721.

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The Arctic island of Greenland is assuming self-rule, in the latest step towards independence from Denmark.

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The nesting site on a precarious cliff edge is still continually used by gyrfalcons, the world's largest species of falcon. Three other nests, each over 1,000 years old, have also been found, one of which contains feathers from a bird that lived more than 600 years ago.

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The oldest bird of prey nest ever recorded, that was first used before the time of Jesus, has been discovered in Greenland.

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After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets. Should we be messing around with these kinds of things?

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A tiny purple bug that has been buried under nearly two miles of ice for 120,000 years has been revived in a lab. The unusual bacterium was found deep within a Greenland ice sheet and scientists believe it holds clues to how life might survive on other planets.

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There are five states competing for control of the Arctic's oil and gas reserves, with Russia leading the pack. The US looks likely to remain on the sidelines, but what opportunities will the natural resource grab present for Canada, Norway and Greenland?

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Greenlanders are hooking up to the Internet in droves since the Greenland Connect sea cable was connected to the island on 24 March. Within the first month of its operation, Internet use jumped 25 percent.

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The future impacts of global warming may be twice as worse as we thought just a few years ago.

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