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Thursday | New Scientist

Sea level rise: It's worse than we thought

FOR a few minutes David Holland forgets about his work and screams like a kid on a roller coaster.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Oceanography, Science, Global Warming

Mon Jun 29, 2009

PR-inside.com

By The Associated Press=

Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world June 23 Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland, on Greenland's home rule ... Greenland _ massive in size but with a miniature population _ took a new turn when it strengthened its autonomy.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

AndhraNews

Glaciers can shrink in a geologic instant

Glaciers can shrink in a geologic instant A new research by scientists has revealed that modern glaciers in deep ocean water can undergo periods of rapid retreat, where they can shrink even more quickly than has recently been observed.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Anthropology, Snohomish County, WA, World News, Arctic Region

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Missileer

Birth of a nation: Team Thule witnesses Greenland's first Independence Day

The Greenland flag is raised for the first time over independent Greenland June 21 in Dundas Village, an uninhabited village close to Thule.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Europe, Denmark, Top-of-the-World, AZ, Dining, US Military, US Air Force, Thule Air Base

Nunatsiaq News

Greenland takes another step to independence

Greenland, which has been under Danish control for 300 years, moved closer to becoming independent on June 21, when its new self-government law, called self rule, came into effect.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Canada, Wedding

Wed Jun 24, 2009

MetaFilter

They Have Two Stoplights and Traffic Jams in Nuuk.

A recent study carried out by Wood Mackenzie ... highlights four basins that are likely to be the focus of the petroleum industry in the upcoming years: the Kronprins Christian Basin [NE Greenland], which is likely to have large reserves, the southwest Greenland basin, due to its proximity to markets, and the more oil-prone basins of Laptev ...

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Free Republic

Greenland to become 51st state of the United States

Greenland, the world's biggest island, made an important step towards its independence on June 21.

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Free Republic

Fondly, Greenland Loosens Danish Rule

Greenland, with 58,000 people and only two traffic lights, both of them here in the capital, is now securing its place in the world.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Prison

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Science Daily

Ice Sheets Can Retreat 'In A Geologic Instant,' Study Of Prehistoric Glacier Shows

The paper, published on June 21 in Nature Geoscience , describes fieldwork demonstrating that a prehistoric glacier in the Canadian Arctic rapidly retreated in just a few hundred years.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, SUNY Buffalo, Geology, Science

Earth Times

Greenlanders celebrate expanded autonomy

Copenhagen/Nuuk, Greenland - In folk festivals around the Arctic island, Greenlanders on Sunday celebrated a new chapter in their history with expanded autonomy removing them a further step from Denmark's colonial rule.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Europe, Denmark, Margrethe Ii

Fri Jun 19, 2009

Star Phoenix

Greenland takes big step towards full independence

An aerial view taken on August 30, 2007 of the town of Ilulissat, Greenland. Greenland will take a major stride on Sunday toward independence from Denmark, which has endorsed the adoption of a new system of self-government that gives the 60,000, mostly-Inuit residents of the worlda TMs largest island greater control over natural resources and ...

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Nunatsiaq News

Big top goes up for Alianait festival

By the time you read this, the lively purple-and-yellow stripes of the Alianait music and arts festival's big-top tent should already be flapping in the breeze in front of Nakasuk school.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Arctic Region, North America

Wed Jun 17, 2009

International Business Times

U.S. climate report details energy, agriculture harm

Climate change has already caused "visible impacts" in the United States and poses particular risks to the U.S. agriculture and energy industries, a new government report said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, World News, Arctic Region, Global Warming

Sat Jun 13, 2009

The State

UN climate chief confident of global warming pact

U.N. climate delegates completed their first rough sketch of a new global warming agreement Friday, a draft replete with gaps and competing ideas that await decisions by political leaders.

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Related Topix: Activism, Global Warming, World News, Arctic Region, Weather

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Nunatsiaq News

Protest Picture

After a lively election campaign in Greenland, shown here in this photo from Nuuk, the leftist Inuit Ataqatigiit Party received 43.7 per cent of the vote, defeating the Siumut Party, which won 26.5 per cent.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Mon Jun 08, 2009

PR-inside.com

Europe News at 0600 GMT

UPCOMING COVERAGE FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 2 RUSSIA-ISRAEL MOSCOW _ Avigdor Lieberman makes his first visit to Russia as Israeli foreign minister, and meets with Russian leaders.

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Sat Jun 06, 2009

Filter-Mag

Undiscovered Band of the Month: Nive Nielsen

The June 2009 edition for Discover The Undiscovered features Inuit singer/songwriter Nive Nielsen from Greenland.

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Related Topix: Greenland Travel, Travel, Arctic Region, World News, Blues, The Black Keys, Bessie Smith, Folk, Townes Van Zandt

Thu Jun 04, 2009

BBC News

Greenland decides

The left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit party has won Greenland's parliamentary elections, ousting the Social Democratic Siumut Party, which governed the territory for 30 years.

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Wed Jun 03, 2009

Copenhagen Post

Greenland wakes up to first power shift in 30 years

After national elections yesterday Siumut, the leading party in Greenland since 1979, have lost their majority and look like they will be left out in the cold by their former opposition parties If out-going Premier Hans Enoksen, leader of Siumut, hoped to ride the wave of national feeling surrounding the imminent introduction of self-rule on 21 ...

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

PR-inside.com

Facts and figures about Greenland

Facts and figures about Greenland, which held a parliamentary election on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Europe, Denmark

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