Discovered By Erik The Red, Occupied By Germany In WWII: All You Need To Know About Greenland's Geopolitical Significance
Greenland’s rich oil, gas and rare earth mineral reserves and its Arctic location have always been its point of attraction.
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Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...
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Why the US military has cared about climate change since the Cold War
In this commentary, the author examines how the U.S. military sees climate change as a threat in itself and a threat ...
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What's under all that ice in Antarctica? New map has answers.
There are only two ice sheets worldwide today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets ... recorded the height and shape of the ice sheet and the thickness of the floating ice shelves that push ...
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NASA’s Ultra-Powerful Radar Makes Surprising Discovery Beneath Greenland’s Ice
I n April 2024, a team of scientists led by NASA’s Chad Greene embarked on a mission over Greenland to study the ice sheet with advanced radar technology. The goal was to measure ice thickness ...
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Why the US military has cared about climate change since the Cold War
U.S. and Norwegian special operations forces test ice thickness to establish a landing ... Army engineers test the properties of snow on Greenland’s ice sheet in 1955, a critical determinant ...
Glaciers have lost 9,000 billion tons since 1975
"The preservation of glaciers is not only an environmental, economic, and social necessity. It is a matter of survival," said ...
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A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
Greenland, which is now an autonomous ... Century drilled the first core of ice that captured the full thickness of the ice sheet — a depth of 4,560 feet (1,390 meters) — and included some ...