In 2019, then-President Donald Trump suggested the United States “buy Greenland” — as a matter of national security. Now in ...
What they found has revolutionized our understanding of Greenland’s ancient climate—and offered a glimpse of our own possible future. Trapped in the soil, Bierman’s team discovered ...
The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference? The allure of ...
Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.
Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest ...
In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at ...
Extreme weather events transformed the Greenland lakes from carbon sinks into significant sources of carbon dioxide, with emissions rising by 350%, according to a new study. Here's how this happened.
Following two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in West Greenland turned brown, ...
Yet while Greenland may be sitting on mineral riches, any "gold rush" continues to be slow to materialise. The economy, which ...
They affect much of the world, and existing climate models predict that by the end of the century, they will become 50-290% more frequent in Greenland, western North America, east Asia ...
Greenland is one of the few places on Earth where climate change is sometimes referred to as an opportunity by making it less inhabitable for those who live there and more accessible to those who ...
The next year, summer 2023, Saros returned to find the familiar lakes utterly transformed. “You could see it right away,” she says. The water bodies had gone from crystal clear and blue–their rocky ...