Human-driven climate change has set in motion massive ice losses in Greenland that couldn’t be halted even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, according to a new study Continue Reading
Greenland said on Monday it has stripped a Chinese mining company of its licence to an iron ore deposit near the capital Nuuk, dealing a blow to attempts by Chinese Continue Reading
Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It Continue Reading
Greenland has ended its 50-year ambition to become an oil-producing nation after announcing it would suspend a strategy of searching for oil and would stop granting exploration licenses. Oil exploration Continue Reading
The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest island, calling it is “a natural step” because the Arctic government “takes the climate Continue Reading
China’s ambitions to develop a massive rare-earth mine have run into a maelstrom of local politics in a part of the world the U.S. considers vital to its national security interests. The Continue Reading
The Trump administration is taking new steps to tighten ties with Greenland as part of an attempt to exert more influence in the Arctic region and ice out China, the Continue Reading
As the summer melt season reaches its peak, the largest Arctic ice shelf has jettisoned a piece of ice twice the size of Manhattan. The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Continue Reading
A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf – 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden – in north-east Greenland. The ejected section covers about 110 square Continue Reading
The Arctic spring thaw has begun with a bang, with extensive melting of the Greenland ice sheet and sea ice loss that is already several weeks ahead of normal, scientists Continue Reading
A tidewater glacier is seen in southeast Greenland during summer 2018. (Eric Rignot) Greenland, home to Earth’s second-largest ice sheet, has lost ice at an accelerating pace in the past Continue Reading
Warmth over Greenland is highlighted in a daily analysis from mid-April. (ClimateReanalyzer.org) You might have heard about the exceptional heat this year in the northern hemisphere and around the world. Continue Reading
Rain is becoming more common across Greenland’s ice sheet and it may be playing an important role in rising sea levels. Greenland’s 660,000-square mile ice sheet contains enough fresh water Continue Reading
Chinese oil majors CNPC and CNOOC have expressed interest in bidding for onshore oil and gas blocks in Greenland, the island’s deputy energy minister said on Tuesday. “They were very Continue Reading
Greenland has been abnormally warm this spring. (NASA) Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, soared to 75 degrees (24 Celsius) Thursday , marking the warmest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic country during Continue Reading
Greenland, an island that may be sitting on trillions of dollars of oil, has had to acknowledge that its dream of tapping into that wealth looks increasingly far-fetched. Back when oil was headed for $150 a barrel, Greenlanders girded for a production boom after inviting in some of the world’s biggest explorers, including Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) Now, with Brent crude dipping below $50 last week, Deputy Prime Minister Andreas Uldum says Greenland’s hope of growing rich quickly on fossil fuels was “naïve.” “I myself believed back when I was first elected” to parliament in 2009 “that billions from oil and minerals would start flowing to us the next year or the year after that,” he said in an interview in Copenhagen. “However, that’s just not the reality. I don’t know any politician in Greenland today who won’t admit to having fueled the hysteria.” The nation […]
Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Greenland is looking for investors from the U.S. to Asia as the world’s largest island targets $4 billion in funds that the government predicts will allow the economy to double in size over the next decade. Investors with “the biggest risk appetite come from the east,” Business Minister Jens-Erik Kirkegaard said in a Jan. 13 phone interview from Nuuk, Greenland’s main city. “We welcome European and North American money just as much as investments coming from the Far East. We don’t have any priority.” The world’s most sparsely populated nation and home to some of the globe’s biggest untapped fossil fuel and mineral reserves says the strategy will help it win independence from Denmark , which still counts Greenland as part of its kingdom. The home rule government in Nuuk is now trying to explain the risks and political landscape to prospective investors, according to […]
