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Fragile ecosystems like the Antarctic and Greenland are highly sensitive to climate change and respond most dramatically to it. Fresh evidence suggests what we were apprehensive about. Global warming is causing Greenland’s ice sheet to melt faster, and...
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Greenland’s premier has called elections for June 2, saying he wants voters to decide who will govern the semiautonomous Danish territory once it gets more say in...
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Official results of a non-binding referendum show three of four voters approve a plan to give Greenland more autonomy from Denmark.
made popular Nov 26 2008
AP, Copenhagen
Polling stations in Greenland have opened in a referendum on expanding home rule in the vast but sparsely populated Arctic island.
made popular Nov 25 2008
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Dreaming of oil wealth, Greenland voters are expected to decide in a nonbinding referendum Tuesday to extend the island’s self rule in what many see as a key step...
made popular Nov 24 2008
Only changes in carbon dioxide levels are able to explain the transition from the mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago, to the ice-covered Greenland of...
made popular Aug 28 2008
Will the Arctic be a 21st Century Sarajevo, triggering a major war over energy resources? Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are at odds over 1.2...
made popular May 29 2008
Denmark has invited high-ranking officials from Norway, Russia, the United States and Canada to meet in Greenland next month to discuss competing claims to the Arctic,...
made popular Apr 24 2008
Fears that the rapid draining of water from the top of Greenland’s ice sheet may be contributing to the rise of global sea levels have been allayed by new...
made popular Apr 19 2008
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For an hour or so Greenland had it’s own mighty waterfall, flowing secretly at three times the volume of Niagara.A meltwater lake on the surface of a glacier...
made popular Apr 17 2008
AP, Anchorage
Arctic sea ice next summer may shrink below the record low last year, according to a University of Washington climatologist. Ignatius Rigor spoke Monday at the Alaska...
made popular Feb 12 2008
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Greenland will hold a referendum in November on greater autonomy from Denmark in what many residents hope could become a step toward full independence, the Arctic...
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AP, Moscow
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted “hero” awards to scientists backing Russia’s claim to a mountain range under the Arctic Ocean that is...
made popular Jan 10 2008
AP, Oslo
The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the “frightening” possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets...
made popular Jan 8 2008
The once towering ice sheets of Greenland are fast eroding, ringing the danger bells all around. The fear of a tragic sea-level rise is also round the corner. Is it the...
made popular Jan 8 2008
AP, Washington
There’s more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is...
made popular Jan 2 2008
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When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. January was the warmest first month on record worldwide _ 1.53 degrees above...
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If you are wondering the ecstatic ice sheets of natural wilderness to be a part of your life, you are getting wrong here. The naturally formed ice sheets of Arctic and...
made popular Dec 12 2007
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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...
made popular Dec 11 2007
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Republican Rudy Giuliani is trying to make up for lost time in New Hampshire by cutting to the chase with low-tax talk likely to resonate in a state whose lack of...
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If you are wondering the ecstatic ice sheets of natural wilderness to be a part of your life, you are getting wrong here. The naturally formed ice sheets of Arctic and...
made popular Dec 12 2007
Ice losses in the shrinking Greenland ice sheet far surpass its ice gains presently! It has been revealed by NASA for the first time by analyzing data from direct,...
made popular Oct 23 2006
We all know by now that the massive ice sheets covering both Greenland and Antarctica are melting dramatically. And global warming is to be blamed for this. But, NASA...
made popular Mar 9 2006
History of Earth’s atmosphere is revealed by the longest ice-core record of climate history ever obtained. Levels of greenhouse gases are once again proved to be...
made popular Nov 25 2005
Did the curious Russian researchers think of the consequences before taking up the project? Or they rushed it, letting intrusiveness dominate their responsibility...
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Among all fears of the global warming aftermaths, the melting Arctic ice sheets and its consequences provide the maximum burns. But, do you know the Greenland is...
made popular Nov 5 2005
A better break from the dire after-effects of global warming. With the Arctic Ice sheets shrinking, which may eventually lead to the disappearance of river from the...
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