| The five hundred years of comparatively benign weather during the Medieval Warm Period fostered the Viking Age. Earth's next weather cycle, the Mini-Ice Age (1300-1800), played a major roll in ending it, especially for isolated--from the homeland--Norse Greenland. The Greenland Norse lifestyle could not be maintained in the face of Climate Change and a changing environment--starvation loomed.Read more at www.bloggingauthors.com |
The ultra-small size of the new species could be one explanation for
why it was able to survive for so long in the Greenland glacier. Called
Chryseobacterium greenlandensis, the species is related genetically to
certain bacteria found in fish, marine mud, and the roots of some
plants. The organism is one of only about 10 scientifically described
new species originating from polar ice and glaciers. Read more at www.dailygalaxy.com |
Instead of solid ice, the sheet is riddled with gaps through which water
surges. This may help to explain the speed at which the ice is melting. Dr
Konrad Steffen, of the University of Colorado in the United States,
announced the discovery at a climate change conference in Copenhagen.
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Video footage taken within the Greenland ice sheet has revealed a maze of
tunnels hidden deep beneath the surface.
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| UK team sets sail for first carbon-neutral Greenland crossing |
| Research expedition on three-week, 2,000-mile crossing of Greenland ice capA British team sets sail tomorrow from Plymouth to attempt the first ever carbon-neutral crossing of the Greenland ice cap.The physiotherapist Richard Spink, landscape gardener Raoul Surcouf and skipper Ben Stoddart hope to complete a three-week, 2,000-mile crossing of the north Atlantic to the port of Nuuk on the west coast of Greenland. Read more at www.earth-stream.com |
Denmark is in charge of foreign affairs and defence policy and contributes two thirds of its budget revenue, the rest coming mainly from fishing. Denmark is also Greenland's main trading partner.
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| Greenland is the world's largest island. Formerly a province of Denmark, it gained the status of an autonomous Danish dependent territory with limited self-government as well as its own parliament in 1979.Read more at news.bbc.co.uk |
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