Before Trump eyed Greenland: Here’s what happened last time US bought a large chunk of Arctic
The US purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. It is today, one of the richest states with abundance of natural resources, such as petroleum, gold …
Global Eco Watch: Greenland’s ice sheet has melted to ‘point of no return’
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Antarctica, Greenland ice sheet melting matches worst-case climate change scenarios: Study
Ice sheets lose ice at rates predicted by worst-case scenarios estimated in the last report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Curiously high levels of mercury found in rivers linked to Greenland Ice Sheet
The findings shine a new light on our understanding of mercury management and the impact of global warming
Giant ancient sharks had enormous babies that ate their siblings in the womb
It seems the start of a megalodon’s life was a tale of two halves. They were protected by a wonderful mother sacrificing time and energy to …
Global warming has reached remote Greenland ice sheets
New study shows temperatures in Greenland haven’t been this warm in at least a 1,000 years
400-year-old Greenland shark is the longest living vertebrate
It beats the record of a bowhead whale that was thought to be the oldest at 211 years old
Once upon a time
The establishment of a research station called the Zackenberg Ecological Research Operations (ZERO) marks Denmark's maiden effort to study …
Global warming led to frequent, extreme melting of ice in Greenland over past 40 years
3.5 trillion tonnes of ice melted and flowed into the ocean over the past 10 years, raising sea levels and flood risk globally, according to a …
Record decline in ice sheets in Antarctic and Greenland
Digital maps created with satelllite data show the combined volume of ice loss in Greenland and west Antarctic is 500 km3
Heat from the Earth’s interior causing Greenland’s ice sheet to melt: study
This is for the first time that the ice loss has been linked to escaped heat from the Earth's interior
Cold and calculating: what the two different types of ice do to sea levels
What matters most for sea levels is how much ice slides off the land and melts in the sea
Climate Emergency CoP 25: Global mean sea level highest-ever in 2019
The State of Global Climate 2019 says that this is yet another sign of the world being in a climate emergency
Antarctica lost more than 3 trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years, but where is all the water going?
It’s time researchers and policy makers think about managing the water when even the more resilient of the two poles has given in to …
Arctic sea ice hits its minimum extent for the year — 2 NASA scientists explain what’s driving the overall decline
As the Arctic’s bright ice is replaced by a darker open ocean surface, less of the sun’s radiation is reflected back to space, …
How does land motion, ice height impact sea-level rise? NASA shows in maps
In maps: How Earth’s surface mass in August 2020 deviated from average for all months between 2004 and 2009; spatial variations in the …
What can a bucket of water tell us about Arctic marine life? A lot, says a new study
Scientists have proposed a new technique to monitor the impact of climate change and human activity on marine life
There is no safe level of global warming: IPCC report
Unless net carbon dioxide emissions are brought down to zero by 2050, warming above 1.5°C is practically inevitable
Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks — destabilising its internal structure
This is a tragedy in making for half a billion people populating vulnerable coastal regions
Greenland, Antarctica lost 7,560 billion tonnes of ice sheet mass in last 3 decades, accounted for quarter of global sea-level rise
The polar ice sheets store 99% of Earth’s freshwater ice on land
What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet?
It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level
Individual extreme weather events can also have a much longer-term effect on the world’s largest ice sheets
Greenland gets even colder
Greenland refrozen
Map>> Global Warming • North Pole
Melting land
