At the end of December, we posted about a disturbing report that Greenland’s glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated. Now, a new study published this week in the journal Nature reveals that Greenland is warmer than it … Continue reading
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A disturbing report from Phys.org. Greenland’s glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated, according to a new model that takes into account the unique interaction between ice and water at the island’s fjords. Published in the journal Geophysical … Continue reading
As record-breaking heat waves have sent temperatures soaring across Western Europe and parts of North America, unusually warm weather in Greenland has triggered massive melting of glacial ice. CNN reports that the amount of ice that melted in Greenland between … Continue reading
Canada and Denmark have ended the good-natured “whisky war” over Hans Island, a tiny, barren and uninhabited island in the Nares Strait roughly equidistant between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island. The dispute originated in 1971 when Canada and Denmark discovered … Continue reading
The BBC reports that a group of scientists say they have discovered by luck what they believe is the world’s northernmost island off Greenland’s coast. In July, the scientists flew to collect samples to what they thought was Oodaaq Island, that … Continue reading
We recently posted about the schooner Ernestina-Morrissey, ex Ernestina, ex Effie M. Morrissey, beginning a new chapter as a sail training vessel for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Here is a repost of a documentary, narrated by the polar explorer, Captain … Continue reading
A 300 foot high, 11-million-ton iceberg is threatening the tiny Greenland village of Innaarsuit. The massive iceberg has grounded just off the coast. The concern is that if the iceberg should calve, the plunging ice could create a tsunami-like wave that … Continue reading
Last month, researchers from the University of Washington released a study performed over four winters which recorded 184 bowhead whales singing beneath the ice in Greenland. What they found was remarkable. Kate Stafford and other UW oceanographers discovered that the … Continue reading
Early last month we posted about an ice island four times the size of Manhattan, a 100-square-mile block of ice 600 feet thick , that broke off from the Petermann glacier in Greenland. In a case of an irresistible force meeting … Continue reading
Last Saturday we posted about a one hundred square mile ice island that broke off from the Petermann glacier in Greenland. Experts from the Canadian government, with the aid of NASA , the European Space agency and numerous other academic institutions, are … Continue reading