Greenland News

Icebergs drift by the mountains in Scoresbysund, Greenland. Inflows of cold, fresh water from Greenland would slow deep currents that carry cold water south, cooling the North Atlantic.

Kerry, shown before boarding his plane in Stockholm, held one of the first climate change hearings in the US Senate in the 1980s Three and half a months into his tenure as US secretary of state, John Kerry is grappling with war in Syria, tensions on the Korean peninsula and other crises.

The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone.

Image Caption: Natural-color satellite image of the ice island that calved off the glacier on August 5, 2010.

Greenland's galloping glaciers will likely slow their rapid retreat in the coming century, scientists project based on a new computer modeling study.

Spring's not all about pretty flowers and greening trees. For some scientists it means watching Arctic ice.

Over a thousand self portraits were submitted from all over the world by individuals calling for a ban on destructive industry in the Arctic and put together in the shape of an eye at the North Pole in April, 2013.

This view of ice flowing around a ridge of bedrock shows ice's plasticity. Ice builds up from years of accumulated snowfall and flows under its own weight from Greenland's interior toward the ocean.

Inuit Circumpolar Council president Aqqaluk Lynge says the language debate in Greenland is skewed and that politicians should be talking more about social inequality and poor education because that is what the language debate is fundamentally about.

Image Caption: Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background seen during an IceBridge survey flight.

A brinicle grows from the ice sheet above in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Over the course of 12 hours, it descends to the seafloor below, then extends another 20 feet along the sea bed, trapping anything it touches in ice.

Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background photographed during a NASA IceBridge flight.

Sylvia Cloutier's childhood was split between two worlds. But whether she was in tiny Kuujjuaq - her home in Quebec's northernmost region from birth to age 8 - or 1,500 kilometres to the south in bustling Montreal, where she lived until age 18, there was one after-school routine she observed in each location.

The Ocean Rig Corcovado, drilling about 180 kilometres offshore Nuuk, drilled down 4,847 metres in 2011, having encountered "minor hydrocarbon shows." That's what Inuit Circumpolar Council-Greenland and Oceans North Canada hoped to learn in a third-party technical review report they recently commissioned.

Our trip began as we flew north over the Great Lakes, looking out the window at the last sunset we would see for two weeks.