• Three-quarters of Greenland is covered by the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although scientists are confident Antarctica has so far escaped major damage from global warming, they are less sure about Greenland, whose icesheet holds enough water to drive up sea levels by seven metres. (theage.com.au)
  • The Greenland Ice Sheet, though subcontinental in size, is huge compared with other glaciers in the world except that of Antarctica . (britannica.com)
  • The climate of the Greenland Ice Sheet, though cold, is not as extreme as that of central Antarctica. (britannica.com)
  • At high altitudes on the Greenland Ice Sheet and in central Antarctica, ice crystals form in the cold air during clear periods and slowly settle out as fine "diamond dust. (britannica.com)
  • Subglacial lakes are relatively common in Antarctica, and although recent studies have mathematically predicted possible locations for hundreds of such features in Greenland, few have actually been found. (spacedaily.com)
  • The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time it will take are still unknown, according to researchers. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Warming is expected to cause more precipitation on Greenland and Antarctica, adding snow. (sciencedaily.com)
  • However, recent studies show that the ice sheets on both Greenland and in Antarctica are melting faster than the snow is replacing the mass. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A number of things can contribute to the increased rate of melting in Greenland and Antarctica. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A new analysis finds that ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica could lead to increases of 2 meters by the end of the century if carbon emissions are not reduced. (the-scientist.com)
  • Greenland and Antarctica have the last two significant ice sheets on Earth. (popsci.com)
  • Here we conduct a systematic study of the production and climate/volcanic signals in Antarctica and Greenland 10Be records, including a new 10Be record from the East GReenland Ice-core Project site. (lu.se)
  • Greenland and Antarctica records show significant decreasing trends (5%-6.5%/decade) for 1900-1950, which is comparable with the expected production rate inferred from sunspot observations. (lu.se)
  • A strategy can be employed to select records for the bipolar stack by comparing Greenland records with Antarctica records, assuming the shared signal is a production signal. (lu.se)
  • Most residents of Greenland are Inuit. (wikipedia.org)
  • In prehistoric times, Greenland was home to several successive Paleo-Inuit cultures known today primarily through archaeological finds. (wikipedia.org)
  • The earliest entry of the Paleo-Inuit into Greenland is thought to have occurred about 2500 BC. (wikipedia.org)
  • I love these coastline contour maps made by the Inuit people of Greenland. (kottke.org)
  • In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. (kottke.org)
  • but the Eskimo comprise of various groups including the Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada and northern Alaska and we have the Yupik of western Alaska and the eastern coastal regions of the Russian Federation and we have the Aleut which live along the Aleutian Chain. (cdc.gov)
  • Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers) for more than a millennium, beginning in 986. (wikipedia.org)
  • In talking about the melting in Greenland, glaciologists sometimes like to describe the relationship between rising temperatures and diminishing ice with mock simplicity: "When it gets hotter," they say, "ice melts. (popsci.com)
  • Therefore it now appears that the more Greenland melts, the more Greenland melts. (popsci.com)
  • If the ice sheet on Greenland melts, sea level will rise about 23 feet, which will inundate portions of nearly all continental shores. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But nine months later, in a precis for policymakers, the IPCC scrapped the 59-cm upper limit, saying it did not know enough about meltwater from Antarctic and Greenland, the world's two big stores of land ice. (theage.com.au)
  • Refrozen meltwater ponds in northeast Greenland seen during an April 2013 IceBridge flight. (spacedaily.com)
  • This finding points to the possibility of similar meltwater-filled subglacial lakes in other parts of Greenland. (spacedaily.com)
  • Meltwater flowing into the oceans from the Greenland Ice Sheet can contribute to sea level rise. (popsci.com)
  • Kristin Poinar uses remote sensing and numerical models to study the interaction of meltwater with ice flow, especially on the Greenland Ice Sheet. (ted.com)
  • The world's largest island, Greenland is the subject of a great deal of scientific research, much of it related to climate. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Days ago the Wall Street Journal reported that, "with varying degrees of seriousness," President Donald Trump has "repeatedly expressed interest" in buying from Denmark the world's largest island, Greenland. (wnd.com)
  • Thinner than the 2.3-kilometer-thick center, the outer edges of the Greenland ice sheet develop melt zones like the one shown here during the warm summer months. (nasa.gov)
  • After a record-breaking 2010 in terms of surface melt area in Greenland Tedesco et al, 2011 , numbers from 2011 have been eagerly awaited. (realclimate.org)
  • The extreme melt event coincided with an unusually strong ridge of warm air over Greenland in the summer of 2012 associated with anomalies in the North Atlantic Oscillation. (europa.eu)
  • Existing research has shown an extensive network of sub-ice drainage channels in Greenland that are thought to quickly move surface melt along the bed and to the ocean. (spacedaily.com)
  • Last week I wrote about the Greenland ice melt in July , and as usual got some, um, interesting comments about it. (syfy.com)
  • Greenland is still a very icy place, and contains a lot of ice that could raise sea levels much further if they continue to melt at an accelerated rate. (popsci.com)
  • This fjord near Tasiilaq in Greenland is renowned for the many icebergs that flow from multiple glaciers at its head into the Denmark Strait. (seabourn.com)
  • Large outlet glaciers, which are restricted tongues of the ice sheet, move through bordering valleys around the periphery of Greenland to calve off into the ocean , producing the numerous icebergs that sometimes penetrate North Atlantic shipping lanes. (britannica.com)
  • Icebergs float in a Greenland Fjord in June. (popsci.com)
  • The mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet is determined by snow fall, summer melting of snow, submarine melting at the tongue of marine outlet glaciers, and icebergs breaking off the glaciers. (europa.eu)
  • Icebergs float on ocean currents near Disko Island off the coast of western Greenland. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The Labrador Sea is grey, wet and full of icebergs as the Ault sails toward the northwest corner of Greenland. (cruisingworld.com)
  • The Greenland ice sheet is huge: 1.7 million square kilometers (650,000 square miles), and commonly creates a lot of icebergs in the summer. (syfy.com)
  • Thule Air Base in Greenland, the U.S.'s northernmost military installation, has been renamed Pituffik Space Base. (rcinet.ca)
  • The study suggests that instead of Greenland's melting ice contributing 10.5 feet (3.2 m) to sea level rise over the past 20,000 years, the Greenland Ice Sheet has contributed around 15.1 feet (4.6 m) to sea level rise. (popsci.com)
  • In a tweet posted this morning (Aug. 16), Greenland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, "#Greenland is rich in valuable resources such as minerals, the purest water and ice, fish stocks, seafood, renewable energy and is a new frontier for adventure tourism. (livescience.com)
  • In remote regions of North American Arctic and Greenland and the Russian Federation, many of these indigenous peoples live in very small, isolated communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Over the same time period, the total area of the Greenland ice sheet that was vulnerable to surface melting had increased by around 65 percent. (popsci.com)
  • One of the most fundamental questions about Arctic climate change is whether the mass of the Greenland Ice Sheet will remain in balance: can snow accumulation keep pace with melting? (nasa.gov)
  • Most significantly, melting on Greenland will raise sea level. (nasa.gov)
  • SCIENTISTS yesterday said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet a prospect that would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas. (theage.com.au)
  • Melting of the Greenland ice sheet has contributed about one fifth to global sea level rise in the last decade. (europa.eu)
  • The changing balance between accumulation on the one hand and melting and calving on the other hand determines the future development of the Greenland ice sheet. (europa.eu)
  • Ice is lost from Greenland, in roughly equal amounts, through surface melting and ice motion, and both components have increased [ii] . (europa.eu)
  • Exceptional melting was recorded on the Greenland ice sheet in the summer of 2012. (europa.eu)
  • I'll note I saw this picture before all the Greenland melting news, and was going to post it simply because it was beautiful! (syfy.com)
  • The climate crisis is melting Greenland down at an unprecedented rate, which - in a twist of irony - is creating an opportunity for investors and mining companies who are searching for a trove of critical minerals capable of powering the green energy transition . (cnn.com)
  • The Greenland ice sheet is massive, mysterious -- and melting. (ted.com)
  • President Harry Truman returned Greenland to Denmark immediately after the war, but he offered our good Danish allies $100 million in gold for the strategic island, an offer the Danes quietly refused. (wnd.com)
  • President Harry Truman even offered Denmark $100 million for Greenland in 1946, though nothing came of the proposal. (livescience.com)
  • With a population of 56,583 (2022), Greenland is the least densely populated region in the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • We synchronized our 10Be record to that from Greenland ice cores based on its globally common production rate. (lu.se)
  • Here, we present a 10Be record at <40-y resolution along with subdecadal proxy records from one Black Sea sediment core around Greenland Interstadial 10 (GI-10) ∼41 ka BP and the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. (lu.se)
  • On Greenland, tens of thousands of years of snowfall have settled and solidified into a massive sheet of ice. (nasa.gov)
  • While some seasonal thawing is typical on Greenland, more dramatic changes are probably in store for the Greenland Ice Sheet in coming decades and centuries. (nasa.gov)
  • Few places on Earth are warming faster than the Arctic, and scientists have observed widespread thinning around the edges of the Greenland ice sheet since at least the late 1990s. (nasa.gov)
  • Since 2003, photographer Olaf Otto Becker has been documenting the decline of the glaciers and ice sheet in Greenland . (kottke.org)
  • Using ice-penetrating radar and ice cores, NASA has been able to map the layers in the Greenland ice sheet . (kottke.org)
  • The ice sheet has been losing mass over the past two decades and warming temperatures will mean more losses for Greenland. (kottke.org)
  • Greenland is mostly covered by this single large ice sheet (1,730,000 square kilometres), while isolated glaciers and small ice caps totaling between 76,000 and 100,000 square kilometres occur around the periphery . (britannica.com)
  • The unconfined ice sheet does not reach the sea along a broad front anywhere in Greenland, and no large ice shelves occur. (britannica.com)
  • Lake near western Greenland Ice Sheet margin in 1964 and 1985. (carleton.edu)
  • The Greenland Ice Sheet (Fig. 1), one of two ice sheets on the planet, and capable of raising global sea level by ~7 meters if completely melted, is changing rapidly. (carleton.edu)
  • But, an important question remains: How quickly can the Greenland Ice Sheet shrink? (carleton.edu)
  • Answering this question is difficult, because we have only had a brief period of time over which to observe the response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to ongoing climate change. (carleton.edu)
  • One way to gain understanding on how the Greenland Ice Sheet responds to climate change is to study how it has responded to known climate changes in the past. (carleton.edu)
  • By using various dating approaches, geologists can determine how the ice sheet responded to past climate events, and thus address questions regarding the responsiveness of the Greenland Ice Sheet to present and future climate change. (carleton.edu)
  • Past ice sheet change is recorded in the geologic record around the perimeter of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (carleton.edu)
  • after the deposition of the Orkendalen Moraine, this sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet retreated to a location inland of its present position. (carleton.edu)
  • 2011a) focused on the problem of when the western Greenland Ice Sheet retreated during the early Holocene warm period. (carleton.edu)
  • 2002) focused on the sediment stratigraphy preserved in a lake just beyond a young moraine (termed the historical moraine) on Greenland that delimits the recent advance of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Little Ice Age cool period. (carleton.edu)
  • over the past few decades, he has set up a system of eighteen installations around Greenland that measure weather on the ice sheet. (popsci.com)
  • The last remaining stable portion of the Greenland ice sheet is stable no more, an international team of scientists has discovered. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Zachariae is the largest ice stream in a drainage basin that covers 16 percent of the Greenland ice sheet -- an area twice as large as the one drained by Jakobshavn. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This paper represents the latest finding from GNET, the GPS network in Greenland that measures ice loss by weighing the ice sheet as it presses down on the bedrock. (sciencedaily.com)
  • It used to be considered the last stable part of the Greenland ice sheet," explained GNET lead investigator Michael Bevis of The Ohio State University. (sciencedaily.com)
  • So, now it seems that all of the margins of the Greenland ice sheet are unstable. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The fact that the mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet has generally increased over the last decades is well known," Khan said, "but the increasing contribution from the northeastern part of the ice sheet is new and very surprising. (sciencedaily.com)
  • GNET, short for "Greenland GPS Network," uses Earth's natural elasticity to measure the mass of the ice sheet. (sciencedaily.com)
  • They found that the northeast Greenland ice sheet lost about 10 billion tons of ice per year from April 2003 to April 2012. (sciencedaily.com)
  • According to previous measurements and aerial photographs, the northeast Greenland ice sheet margin appeared to be stable for 25 years -- until 2003. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The Greenland ice sheet is the largest body of ice in the Northern Hemisphere and plays an important role in the global climate system. (europa.eu)
  • The Greenland ice sheet has lost ice during the last two decades at an increasing rate. (europa.eu)
  • Model projections suggest further declines of the Greenland ice sheet in the future but the uncertainties are large. (europa.eu)
  • Several different methods are used to monitor the changes of the Greenland ice sheet. (europa.eu)
  • This sub-ice body of water is only one of a handful that have been detected in Greenland and its presence sheds new light on how the Greenland Ice Sheet reacts to warming temperatures. (spacedaily.com)
  • The presence of subglacial lakes in Greenland could affect how parts of the ice sheet move by adding heat to ice at the base and softening. (spacedaily.com)
  • Further research on subglacial lakes in Greenland will likely help researchers improve projections of how the ice sheet will change in response to future warming. (spacedaily.com)
  • The Greenland ice sheet-second only in size to the Antarctic ice sheet-is currently the biggest single contributor to sea level rise globally. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In my previous post, I summarized William Nordhaus' new article, "Economics of the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet," which showed that. (instituteforenergyresearch.org)
  • In the past, the Greenland ice sheet has grown when its surroundings cooled, shrunk when its surroundings warmed and even disappeared completely when the temperatures became warm enough. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Observers have seen lakes on the Greenland ice sheet drain at the speed of Niagara Falls. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Right now, the center of the Greenland ice sheet is frozen to the rocks," says Alley. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The Greenland Ice Sheet is at the front line of climate change. (worldpressphoto.org)
  • That's a big deal because many measurements of the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet are based on researchers measuring the elevation of the surface of the ice. (popsci.com)
  • Kristin Poinar: What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? (ted.com)
  • What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? (ted.com)
  • How is the Greenland Ice Sheet like a rubber band? (ted.com)
  • Denmark nixed a 2017 Chinese attempt to buy an abandoned naval base, and in 2018 rebuffed Chinese plans to build three airports in Greenland. (wnd.com)
  • Ivalo Olsen is the only teacher in Oqaatsut, a cluster of red, blue, and yellow buildings on the rocky western coast of Greenland. (magnumphotos.com)
  • The bedrock surface is near sea level over most of the interior of Greenland, but mountains occur around the periphery. (britannica.com)
  • The Saga of Erik the Red states: "In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favorable name. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Vikings arrived not that long after and Erik the Red called the island Greenland thinking the colorful name would attract more people to the island. (kidzworld.com)
  • In the year 986 A.D., Erik the Red led 14 boatloads of Vikings to Greenland, starting his recruitment of settlers by promising that Greenland had more fertile farmland than Iceland. (wnd.com)
  • When Denmark and Norway separated Greenland became Danish in 1814 and was fully integrated in the Danish state in 1953 under the Constitution of Denmark, which made the people in Greenland citizens of Denmark. (wikipedia.org)
  • Danish men arrived in Greenland as civil servants and construction workers, and many returned to Denmark with Greenlandic wives. (magnumphotos.com)
  • President Donald Trump has expressed an interest in buying Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, according to a report published yesterday (Aug. 15) by The Wall Street Journal . (livescience.com)
  • Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland beginning in the 10th century, having previously settled Iceland. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1867, when Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, he also began drawn-out negotiations with Denmark over today's Virgin Islands, and also considered buying Greenland and Iceland. (wnd.com)
  • When Nazi Germany occupied Denmark during World War II, the U.S. took military control of Greenland in April 1941 to prevent Nazi invasion. (wnd.com)
  • For comparison, one of the fastest moving glaciers, the Jakobshavn ice stream in southwest Greenland, has retreated 35 kilometers (21.7 miles) over the last 150 years. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In Greenland, the Jakobshavn ice shelf has retreated more than 5 miles since 1992. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Although Greenland is largely autonomous, Denmark still currently pays half of the island's budget, so any opportunity to build economic independence remains an attractive proposition. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Whether true or not, the allegations are stirring up a storm of controversy in Denmark and Greenland, Monitor contributor Wayne Brittenden reports. (csmonitor.com)
  • The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) estimates that there are almost 18 billion undiscovered oil barrels on the west coast of Greenland. (ibtimes.com)
  • With the world's largest undeveloped deposits of rare-earth minerals, Greenland has the potential to become a world leader in producing the materials essential to high-demand products like smartphones and military hardware like the F-35 fighter jet. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • An Australian company, Greenland Minerals, has been preparing the site for the past 15 years, while a Chinese firm, Shenghe Resources-itself part-owned by the Chinese government-is Greenland Minerals' main investor. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Greenland is rich in valuable resources such as minerals, the purest water and ice, fish stocks, seafood, renewable energy and is a new frontier for adventure tourism. (livescience.com)
  • Though under continuous influence of Norway and Norwegians, Greenland was not formally under the Norwegian crown until 1261. (wikipedia.org)
  • Norway officially took over Greenland in the 13th century but later lost it to Denmark, which claimed the island in the 17th century. (kidzworld.com)
  • Greenland has been owned since 1814 by Denmark, which provides its people an annual subsidy of $591 million, about $10,550 per person. (wnd.com)
  • Many young Greenlanders are leaving small villages for more urban centers, both in Greenland and abroad, in search of educational and occupational opportunities that don't exist in rural areas. (magnumphotos.com)
  • In 2013, a team of scientists even discovered an aquifer under the snow in east Greenland, containing extraordinary reserves of water that covered an area the size of West Virginia. (popsci.com)
  • Scientists recorded three different types of narwhal sounds in East Greenland. (the-scientist.com)
  • Results of search for 'au:'Greenland. (who.int)
  • The Greenland shark is the planet's longest-lived vertebrate, but it was only recently that scientists were able to ascertain exactly how old they might be. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Greenland has suspended all future oil exploration due to climate change concerns, in an effort to show the country's government is taking the climate crisis seriously. (ibtimes.com)
  • The Arctic's disappearing ice - on land and in the ocean - highlights a unique dichotomy: Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change, but it could also become ground zero for sourcing the metals needed to power the solution to the crisis. (cnn.com)
  • Not only does Greenland boast these resources, but more are being exposed there as the Earth warms due to human-caused climate change. (livescience.com)
  • Greenland lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. (wikipedia.org)
  • Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Greenland%20halibut. (merriam-webster.com)
  • By comparing 10Be records with reanalysis data and atmospheric circulation patterns, 10Be records from Southern/Southeastern Greenland are significantly correlated with the Scandinavia pattern. (lu.se)
  • We are working extensively in the field in Scandinavia and Greenland but we also have novel controlled environment facilities in the laboratory in Lund where we can simulate permafrost conditions and work on details of how the climate and vegetation structure are interacting with greenhouse gas exchanges. (lu.se)
  • Kobold is partnered with Bluejay Mining to find the rare and precious metals in Greenland that are necessary to build electric vehicles and massive batteries to store renewable energy . (cnn.com)
  • The Canadian company AEX Gold is already mining the precious metal in the Nanortalik Gold Belt in southern Greenland, according to Mining Global , a mining news outlet. (livescience.com)
  • A correction will be made to a renowned atlas, a recent edition of which incorrectly showed Greenland lost extreme amounts of ice. (the-scientist.com)
  • Greenland has been inhabited at intervals over at least the last 4,500 years by Arctic peoples whose forebears migrated there from what is now Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • In '79 Greenland voted for home rule and six years later the island broke away from Europe. (kidzworld.com)
  • For example, during the Holocene Epoch (the last 11,700 years), Greenland has experienced both warm spells and short-lived cooling events. (carleton.edu)
  • For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as above them the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Matt Rutherford is back in Greenland and the crew is getting the boat refitted and back in the water for the latest expedition. (cruisingworld.com)
  • After finding a habitable area and settling there, he named it Grœnland (translated as "Greenland"), supposedly in the hope that the pleasant name would attract settlers. (wikipedia.org)
  • In case this isn't already clear, there is simply no measure - neither thickness nor areal extent - by which Greenland can be said to have lost 15 % of its ice. (realclimate.org)
  • These calculations do take postglacial rebound into account, but the new research suggests that Greenland is bouncing back faster then previous studies had accounted for. (popsci.com)
  • While the accelerating mass loss from Greenland is of course a concern, the large exaggeration of that loss rate by Harper Collins in the press release for the 2011 edition of the Times Atlas was of course completely wrong. (realclimate.org)
  • Large lakes of water on the ice in Greenland pose a problem. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This large increase in Greenland 10Be records after the Agung eruption, could be partly explained by the enhanced air mass transport from mid-latitudes coinciding with the decreased precipitation en-route. (lu.se)
  • And by taking many different measurements across Greenland, researchers can build up a picture of how much ice is being lost over time. (popsci.com)
  • Researchers hope that with these new, more accurate measurements they can get a more accurate picture of how Greenland is contributing to sea level rise, helping people living in coastal cities prepare for a wetter future. (popsci.com)
  • The government said in a statement that it "has decided to cease issuing new licenses for oil and gas exploration in Greenland. (ibtimes.com)
  • When World War II broke out the US took over custody of Greenland. (kidzworld.com)
  • Greenland is the largest island in the world. (kidzworld.com)
  • The trend began after World War II, when Denmark, which first claimed Greenland in 1721, kicked off its efforts to modernize its Arctic colony. (magnumphotos.com)