Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 14:40
A new laser-based technology from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) holds promise to tell how the melting of earth’s frozen regions may affect our climate.
Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 14:30
Scientists have suggested that Greenland Ice Sheet stores liquid water all year long, based on the surprising discovery of an aquifer, an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock .
Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 13:08
Scientists have said that Greenland`s shrunken ice sheet was smaller than today about 3-5,000 years ago.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 11:22
For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is set to fly aboard NASA`s new C-130 aircraft to map Greenland`s ice sheet and surrounding Arctic sea ice following a summer`s melt.
Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 18:54
Greenland`s parliament has voted in favor of removing a 25-year-old ban on uranium mining.
Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 16:57
Greenland`s parliament has voted in favour of removing a 25-year-old ban on uranium mining, paving the way for an industrial boom that the Arctic island hopes will help it gain independence from former colonial master Denmark.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 14:50
Researchers have said that recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean.
Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013, 10:47
When we all thought that all the mysteries of Earth have been unveiled, we stumble upon this discovery. Scientists have discovered a vast canyon, twice as long as the Grand Canyon.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 21:10
Climate change could lead to extensive growth of trees and bushes in large parts of Greenland - that are currently ice-free - by the end of the century, scientists predict.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 09:23
The Greenland ice sheet is melting from below, caused by a high heat flow from the mantle into the lithosphere.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 18:49
Stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ocean, which could worsen sea level rise, according to new findings.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 14:52
Researchers suggest that the time period of satellite observations of Greenland ice sheets and the Antarctic is still too short to be able to predict whether the accelerated loss of ice measured today will persist in future.
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