Jul 24 As glaciers shrink, iceberg tourism booms By Teresa Carey Scientists are concerned that global warming is destabilizing glaciers and ice shelves, creating larger and more frequent icebergs, like the Petermann Ice Island and the iceberg off the Innaarsuit settlement in Greenland. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch 3:42 Arctic journey shows the glaring effects of climate change By PBS News Hour A Finnish icebreaker has completed the Northwest Sea passage, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Arctic. The trip, from Vancouver to Greenland’s capital city Nuuk, took 24 days -- a new record, in part because climate change… Continue watching
Sep 01 3.7 billion-year-old Greenland fossils are oldest yet, scientists say By Harry Zahn A newly discovered fossil from Greenland may represent the oldest known evidence of life on earth and could guide the search for life on moons or others planets in our solar system. Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch 8:50 To combat climate change, these scientists are turning CO2 into rock By PBS News Hour Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a major contributor to global warming. But what if there were a way to turn that gas into rock and store it safely, thousands of feet underground? One power plant in Iceland is attempting… Continue watching
Feb 03 Greenland glacier hits record speeds By Justin Scuiletti Traveling just over 6 mph would hardly break any speed record. But for a glacier, it is a pace that is considered unprecedented. In fact, the summer speed of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, according to a new study published by… Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch Sampling Greenland – Dark Snow Project youtube video on Dark Snow Project… Continue watching
Jul 25 Watch Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days On July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of… Continue watching
Jul 25 Sudden, Rare Ice Melt in Greenland. What Caused it? By Jenny Marder In a four-day period this July, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate than satellite data has ever recorded and at higher elevations than we've seen in our lifetimes. So what caused this extraordinary melt? Since May,… Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch In Greenland, Ice Unlocks Climate Change History Scientists dig deep into Greenland's ice to unearth the history of climate change. Climatologist and Climate Central correspondent Heidi Cullen reports. Continue watching
Aug 01 Watch Greenland Residents Detect Sea Changes Residents of Greenland's west coast say they are feeling the effects of rising sea temperatures in the fishing and tourism industries. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the research into whether the changes are climate change-related. Continue watching