Monday, 14 September 2020 (YJC)_A big chunk of ice has just broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden - in north-east Greenland.
TEHRAN, August 21 -US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called off a visit to Denmark scheduled for early September after the country’s prime minister rebuffed his idea of purchasing Greenland.
TEHRAN, August 19 -US President Donald Trump says that the United States is considering possibly buying Greenland, noting it is “a large real estate deal.”
TEHRAN, August 16 - Danish politicians on Friday poured scorn on the notion of selling Greenland to the United States, following reports that President Donald Trump had privately discussed the idea of buying the world’s biggest island with his advisers.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 - Researchers have found an additional 56 lakes under the Greenland Ice Sheet, bringing the island's total number of subglacial lakes to 60.
TEHRAN, Jun 25 -Predicting where, how and how quickly Greenland's ice will melt is difficult. Projections by the best models are cloudy, and new research suggests clouds are doing the clouding.
TEHRAN, Jun 23 -Analysis of a strange skull in storage for the last 30 years has shown it belonged to the offspring of a narwhal mother and a beluga whale father.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 -Since 1972, Greenland's ice loss has contributed to nearly 14 millimeters of sea level rise, half of which has occurred during the last eight years.
TEHRAN, Jan 23 -Most of the research on Greenland's ice loss has focused on icebergs calving from glaciers along the island's southeast and northwest coasts. But new research suggests Greenland's southwest region, home to very few large glaciers, is losing ice at an alarming rate.
TEHRAN, December 01 - Scientists now know why an unstable Greenland glacier suddenly raced toward the sea and then slowed, just days later.
Researchers used detailed observations of glacial behavior to model the movement of Jakobshavn Glacier in the wake of a 2012 calving event.
TEHRAN, June 25 -In northwest Greenland, a pair of glaciers, Tracy and Heilprin, flow side-by-side into Inglefield Gulf, and yet, they're melting at dramatically different rates.