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- Dozens of massacred narwhals found on Greenland coast
- COPENHAGEN AFP — Dozens of massacred narwhals, an Arctic whale with a single long tusk, have been discovered on the east coast of Greenland in what local police said Thursday could be a case of poaching. "We received a complaint that there may have been a possible violation of...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Stop stealing our land, Inuits say, as Arctic resources race heats up
- KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland AFP — With the race for Arctic resources intensifying, the region's indigenous Inuits are raising their voices and demanding that nations bordering the Arctic Sea stop stealing their land and respect their way of life. Arctic waters could hold 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- Administration pushes dangerous law of the sea treaty
- President Bush startled conservatives in his own party in 2005 with his support for U.S. ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty LOST. The Republican rank-and-file has adamantly opposed this effort to give the UN regulatory and taxing powers over all the world's oceans and territorial seas...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- Negroponte to attend Arctic conference: US
- WASHINGTON AFP — John Negroponte, the US deputy secretary of state, will travel to Greenland for an international conference next week about territorial claims in the oil-rich Arctic, the State Department said Wednesday. "Negroponte will lead the United States delegation to the Arctic Ocean Conference hosted by the Government...
- Research articles 2008-05-21
- Greenland DNA could hold key to migration mysteries: researchers
- COPENHAGEN AFP — Danish researchers are to sieve through human and skeletal remains on Greenland in a quest to explain an enduring enigma over the island's settlement over thousands of years, one of the scientists said Tuesday. "We want to track down how the settlement actually happened," Niels Lynnerup,...
- Research articles 2007-12-18
- Scientists say Arctic 'screaming'
- WASHINGTON -- An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years. Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly...
- Research articles 2007-12-12
- Greenland ice cap melting faster than expected
- COPENHAGEN AFP — The ice cap in the northern hemisphere is melting a lot more rapidly that scientists thought, according to new research published Thursday by the Danish National Space Center. "Until 2004, the glacier mass in the southeastern part of the island lost about 50 to 100 cubic...
- Research articles 2007-10-11
- Snow Melting in Greenland Soars to Record High in High Places
- To: SCIENCE EDITORSContact: Lynn Chandler, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1- 301-286-2806, Lynn.Chandler-1@nasa.gov GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new NASA- supported study reports that in 2007, melting in high-altitude areas of Greenland was greater than ever at 150 percent above average. The study also confirmed an overall...
- Research articles 2007-09-25
- Global warming brings early spring to Arctic: study
- CHICAGO AFP — In the upper reaches of Greenland, the Arctic spring comes several weeks earlier than it did a decade ago, according to a study released Monday that underscores the far-reaching impact of global warming on the northern polar region. Researchers discovered that plant, insect and bird life...
- Research articles 2007-06-18
- A mid-Archaean island arc complex in the eastern Akia terrane, Godthåbsfjord, southern West Greenland
- Abstract: A relict oceanic island arc complex in the eastern Akia terrane, Godthåbsfjord, southern West Greenland, constitutes a magmatic and geotectonic link between c. 3.05-3.0 Ga tonalitic orthogneiss and enclaves of older supracrustal amphibolite. The relict arc forms isoclinally folded panels of volcaniclastic meta-andesite with major and trace element island...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Greenland coalition crumbles in fishing row
- COPENHAGEN AFP — Greenland's three-party coalition government crumbled late Monday when Prime Minister Hans Enoksen decided to expel the pro-independence far-left Inuit Ataqatigiit IA due to disagreements over fishing, Greenland's Radio Nuuk reported. Enoksen of the social-democratic Siumut party hit out at the IA which had over the weekend...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Immense ice shelf breaks off in Canadian Arctic: researchers
- MONTREAL AFP — An enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year, researchers said, warning it could be another symptom of global warming. The 66-square-kilometer (25.5-square-mile) ice island tore away from Ellesmere, a huge strip of land in the Canadian Arctic close to Greenland....
- Research articles 2006-12-29
- Ice cowboys fined for lassoing a polar bear
- COPENHAGEN AFP — Three teenagers have been fined 3,000 Danish kroner (400 euros, 530 dollars) by a Greenland court for lassoing a polar bear in a stunt they said they carried out because they were bored, the court said. Their conviction on appeal upheld a lower court's ruling from February....
- Research articles 2006-12-08
- Greenland Ice Sheet Rapidly Melting
- GREENBELT, Maryland ENS — --> Ice losses now far surpass ice gains in the shrinking Greenland ice sheet, NASA scientists reported Thursday. The researchers estimate the annual net loss from the ice sheet equals six years of water flow from the Colorado River, but found the ice sheet may not...
- Research articles 2006-10-20
- Glaciers heading for point of no return.
- Byline: Jessica Marshall Aug 21, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Greenland's glaciers lost about 220 cubic kilometres in 2005. Eric Rignot, of the California Institute of Technology, used satellite radar interferometry to observe the process and found that the rate...
- Research articles 2006-08-21
- Greenlanders launch beer brewed with ice cap water
- COPENHAGEN AFP — A Greenland brewery has said it has started making beer with pure water from the ice cap destined to give it a uniquely cool taste and worldwide appeal. "This is a an old dream finally coming true," Greenland Brewhouse co-owner Steen Outzen told AFP Wednesday. "Our...
- Research articles 2006-08-02
- Baltimore/Washington International Airport focuses on travel to
- While West Africa or Greenland might not be on everyone's travel itinerary, the recent addition of three smaller airlines focusing on travel to smaller international markets might hold the key to turning around the dip in traffic at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Since December, BWI Airport has...
- Research articles 2006-07-25
- Greenland makes oil companies melt
- COPENHAGEN AFP — The remote oil fields of Greenland could become a new eldorado for oil companies thanks to a spectacular rise in fossil fuel prices and uncertainty concerning future supplies, experts say. Greenland will this week launch a new round of concessions for oil and gas exploration and...
- Research articles 2006-07-16
- Quakes show glaciers are melting fast.
- Apr 06, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The number of glacial "earthquakes" is rising in Greenland. Goran Ekstrom, a seismologist at Harvard University, US, found that the ...
- Research articles 2006-04-06
- For first time, Greenland sets polar bear hunting quotas
- COPENHAGEN AFP — Greenland has for the first time introduced hunting quotas on polar bears to protect the species threatened by global warming in the Arctic, but postponed plans to allow a limited tourist hunt, officials said. "The quota was set at 150 animals in 2006, and will be...
- Research articles 2006-01-04
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