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Slowest Greenland sharks `hunt sleeping seals`

Last Updated: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 18:29

Researchers have measured the speed of the ocean’s slowest shark – the Greenland sharks, which “cruise” at 0.34m per second that is less than 1mph and revealed that they hunt sleeping seals.

Lost photos reveal history of Greenland ice loss

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 21:54

A set of 80-year-old photographs unearthed in a basement archive has proved that Greenland`s ice was melting even faster then than it is now.

Greenland glaciers not melting as much as speculated

Last Updated: Friday, May 4, 2012, 13:46

Greenland’s contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper limits some scientists thought possible.

Greenland ice sheet may be sliding away due to surface lake melt

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:45

Greenland ice sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean because of massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, a new study suggests.

Future sea-level rise predicted in 3-mn-yr-old rocks

Last Updated: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 15:21

The height of ancient sea level indicates Greenland and the western part of Antarctica had no ice sheets.

Greenland icesheet more vulnerable to warming

Last Updated: Monday, March 12, 2012, 09:23

Greenland is second to Antarctica as the biggest source of locked-up water on land.

Earth losing roughly 150 bn tons of ice annually

Last Updated: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 18:24

Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie from 2003-2010.

`2010 temperature lifted ice loss in Greenland`

Last Updated: Saturday, December 10, 2011, 18:38

Data from the GPS stations has indicated that an unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons.

Cairn Energy abandons second well off the coast of Greenland

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 21:09

Scottish oil explorer Cairn Energy Plc Tuesday said it has abandoned a second well off the coast of Greenland after failing to find any oil or gas.

`Mars may have a coastline like Greenland`

Last Updated: Monday, August 29, 2011, 20:19

Early in its history, Mars may have a cold glacier-rimmed ocean covering its northern lowlands.

18 Greenpeace activists climb Greenland oil rig

Last Updated: Saturday, June 4, 2011, 20:12

Greenpeace activists climbed a 53,000-ton oil rig in Arctic waters off Greenland to protest deep-water drilling.

Greenland ice loss can fill world`s 11th largest lake

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 13:28

Greenland is a natural lab for studying how climate change has affected ice fields.