Full Coverage: Greenland

05.05.2008 Caribou may serve as an indicator species for global warming, says a biology professor. It seems that the timing of peak food availability no longer corresponds to the timing of caribou births.
From: Science Daily

28.04.2008 The significant shifts driven by climate change in the polar regions present new opportunities and pressures for development. These are challenges which demand holistic, integrated responses (PDF briefing).

04.10.2007 The Inuit people's intimate relationship with their environment makes them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, says indigenous activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier.

27.11.2006 from Oil Change blog:
Here's another reason to diversify away from oil now.

30.10.2006 NASA:n tutkijat varoittivat Grönlannin jäätiköiden sulamisvauhdin kaksinkertaistuneen viimeisten viiden vuoden aikana. NASA:n tutkijat analysoivat ensimmäistä kertaa suoria, tarkkoja satelliittimittauksia. Tähän saakka Grönlannin jäätiköiden sulamisen mittaaminen on ollut epätarkkaa ja pohjautunut pitkälti nopeuteen, jolla jäätiköt uppoavat mereen.

22.08.2006 from NASA earth observatory:
A new gravity survey from two satellites reveals that the melting process may be approaching a point where it won't be centuries before Greenland's ice melts, but a much shorter time-frame.

20.02.2006 Greenland's glaciers are melting even faster than previously thought and contributing more and more to sea level rise. Scientific reports say the amount of ice being dumped into the ocean from the Greenland Ice Sheet has doubled in the last five years.

10.08.2005 Fish, birds, and marine mammals in Greenland and the Faroe Islands are polluted with fluorinated chemicals, a new study shows - with polar bears the most contaminated.

29.05.2001 An air base in Greenland with key strategic value to United States plans for strengthened missile defence has taken centre stage in a new debate over total independence for the Danish territory.

05.12.2000 Inuit groups from Russia, Alaska and Greenland are to meet former South African president Nelson Mandela at an anti-toxics conference this week to push for pledges to protect their food sources from "persistant organic pollutants".

24.07.2000 Greenland's ice sheet - which holds almost 10 percent of the world's frozen water - is melting at a rate of more than three feet a year in places, a new survey reveals.

13.10.1999 Greenland is squaring up for a clash with environmentalists at next month's World Trade Organisation summit, over the rights of its Inuit hunters to sell seal fur abroad.

13.09.1999 The traditional Inuit belief that criminals should not be imprisoned lives on in Greenland. Lucy Jones reports from Nuuk.