Greenland News

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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