Greenland News

Disko Bay lay glinting with ice on the bright afternoon we sailed in. Bergs as big as buses floated among others the size of houses.

Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland flow field embed this This visualization shows flow directions and relative speeds of the Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland.

Discussions on the Viking settlements on Greenland are seen from time to time on WUWT, and its is often in the context of the Medieval Warm Period.

In Antarctic Bay, a southern minke whale circled our Zodiac raft, and I heard its grand, percussive exhalation, an octave lower than the lowest note of a pipe organ.

Writer and photographer James Martin, author with Mark Twight of Extreme Alpinism, several years ago turned his attention to the vanishing ice of planet Earth.

NUUK, Greenlanda 'The posters are plastered on school walls and at bus stops across Greenland's capital city.

Sip ice beer with your musk ox tartare. Sheep roam near Viking ruins, such as the 14th century Hvalsey Church, where a wedding in 1408 provided the last written record of the Vikings in Greenland.

Sunday, Sept. 19, 1909 In an article in the St. John's Gazette, Robert E. Peary and Samuel W. Bartlett, the captain of Peary's ship, say the Eskimos who accompanied Cook admitted they did not go anywhere near the pole.

Come May 2010, TELE Greenland will be able to offer its subscribers mobile broadband services enabled by 3G.

"Cucumbers, lettuce, radish, turnips," says Buuti Pedersen, ticking off the grown-in-Greenland veggies now available at local supermarkets.

Back in 2002, NASA created a film using satellite data that took viewers on a tour of Earth's frozen regions.

Leading consumer groups have voiced disapproval over the full switch-over to new energy-efficient light bulbs, due to take place across the EU from next week.

Denmark's Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that the government's expropriation of the land of a group of native Greenlanders for the expansion of a US air base in the 1950s was legal.

Traveling to report a story on narwhals meant taking three planes and a helicopter to a small, remote town in Greenland that's only about 850 miles from the North Pole.

Many scientists and governments are talking about what will happen once climate change begins to occur, but on the great island of Greenland global warming isn't just a future problem - it's happening now.

Greenland: A model for self-sufficiency While Nunavut's capital grapples with social problems and economic uncertainty, their counterparts across the ocean take steps to deal with at-risk youth Anna Mehler Paperny Last updated on Friday, Aug.

Two Vancouverites flying 7,500 kilometres to Europe in a small single-engine plane arrived safely in Scotland on Thursday evening.

After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty.

After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty.

After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty.