Greenland
Rock ‘flour’ from Greenland can capture significant CO2, study shows
Powder produced by ice sheets could be used to help tackle climate crisis when spread on farm fields
Damian Carrington Environment editor
30, May, 2023 @10:44 AM
DNA from 2m years ago reveals lost Arctic world
Breakthrough pushes back DNA record by 1m years to time when region was 11–19C warmer than today
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
07, Dec, 2022 @4:46 PM
Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic?
The climate emergency is prompting some scientists to suggest extreme measures. But whether you call it geoengineering or biomimicry, others feel interfering with nature will have too high a cost
Andrew Anthony
27, Nov, 2022 @10:00 AM
‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world
They are the images that made us sit up and take notice. As world leaders gather for Cop27, these pictures prove that global heating isn’t a distant possibility – it’s already here
Gabrielle Schwarz
05, Nov, 2022 @11:00 AM
Microphones dropped into ocean off Greenland to record melting icebergs
Artist Siobhán McDonald will turn recordings into an acoustic installation exploring humanity’s impact on the ocean
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
19, Oct, 2022 @4:00 AM
Weather tracker: UK and northern Europe forecast to be windiest places on Earth
Low pressure from Atlantic likely to usher in 70mph gusts from Friday night
Jodie Woodcock (Metdesk)
10, Oct, 2022 @9:36 AM
World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
Damian Carrington Environment editor
08, Sep, 2022 @6:00 PM
Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’
Loss will contribute a minimum rise of 27cm regardless of what climate action is taken, scientists discover
Damian Carrington Environment editor
29, Aug, 2022 @3:00 PM
Canada and Denmark end decades-long dispute over barren rock in Arctic
Hans Island ‘whisky war’ – described by some as a ‘pseudo-confrontation’ – ends after formal division agreed
Peter Beaumont
14, Jun, 2022 @2:02 PM
The last hunt? Future in peril for ‘the unicorn of the sea’
Scientists want to protect narwhals, but local people who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
Sofia Moutinho and Regin Winther Poulsen
02, Jun, 2022 @5:30 AM
‘Nature doesn’t fix itself fast’: Greenland weighs up economy v climate crisis
As the island eyes tourism and mining it is also mindful of controlling the cost
Laura Paddison in Narsaq
07, May, 2022 @7:00 AM
How the climate crisis is changing Greenland’s weather
Winters are long and cold, but summer temperatures in the high 20s are now being recorded
Stephen Moss
28, Apr, 2022 @5:00 AM
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