Scientists reveal how Greenland Ice Sheet has shrunk over past four decades
London, US Reuters The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 5,091 square kilometres of area between 1985 and 2022, according to a study in the journal Nature published on Wednesday, the first full ice-sheet wide estimate of area loss on that scale. This shrinkage reflected the 1,034 gigatonnes (1.034 trillion kilograms) of ice that have been lost […]
Greenland glaciers melt five times faster than 20 years ago
Copenhagen, DenmarkReuters Global warming has increased the speed at which glaciers in Greenland are melting by fivefold over the last 20 years, scientists from the University of Copenhagen said on Friday. Greenland’s ice melt is of particular concern, as the ancient ice sheet holds enough water to raise sea levels by at least six metres […]
Snapshot: Scoresbysund, Greenland
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Canada and Denmark divide small Arctic island, ending ownership dispute
Copenhagen, Denmark Reuters Denmark and Canada will divide small, uninhabited Hans Island in the Arctic, eding an almost 50-year ownership spat, in a largely symbolic act of diplomacy designed to avoid tensions in the high North. The NATO allies have been engaged in a mostly good-natured squabble over the island, situated at equal distance between Greenland […]
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Greenland expedition discover “world’s northernmost island”
Copenhagen, DenmarkReuters Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world’s northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice. The discovery comes as a battle is looming among Arctic nations the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark and Norway for control of […]
“Canary in the coal mine”: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds
Reuters Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests. Scientists studied data on 234 glaciers across the Arctic territory spanning 34 years through 2018 and found that annual snowfall was no longer enough […]
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