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A search expanded on Thursday for those killed or trapped alive by an earthquake in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, as rescue workers arriving from abroad fanned out through the capital, Port Vila, encountering flattened...
Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometers of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm. An aging Russian oil tanker broke up...

New geological study: Scandinavia was born in Greenland

In a Finnish outcrop nestled between some of Northern Europe’s oldest mountains, researchers have found traces of a previously hidden part of Earth’s crust...

New geological study shows Scandinavia was born in Greenland

The oldest Scandinavian bedrock was "born" in Greenland according to a new geological study from the University of Copenhagen. The study helps us understand...

Greenland’s Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change

The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering...

Greenland melted some 416,000 years ago, shows high risk of causing sea level rise today

During the Cold War, a secret U.S. Army mission, at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland, drilled down through 4,560 feet of ice on the...

‘Devastating’ melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago,...

Lakes collapse and release meltwater during winter causing inland ice to speed up in Greenland

A team of international researchers has shown for the first time how 18 meltwater lakes in Greenland collapse during winter, which causes the edges...

New ice core analysis shows sharp Greenland warming spike

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the...

Global warming reaches central Greenland

A temperature reconstruction from ice cores of the past 1,000 years reveals that today's warming in central-north Greenland is surprisingly pronounced. The most recent...

Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated

Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published today in Nature indicate...

Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise

Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise with potentially "ominous" implications over this century as...

Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting and exporting sand from melting ice sheet

A national survey of close to 1,000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a McGill University-led research...

100-year-old Greenland shark that washed up on UK beach had brain infection, autopsy finds

The super-rare Greenland shark that washed ashore in England last month had a brain infection when it died, according to an animal autopsy of...

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