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Summer 2024 was Lapland's warmest in 2,000 years: study

Apr 28, 2025 (AFP)

"Last summer's average temperature in Lapland, or northern Fennoscandia, was the highest in both direct observations which we have from the late 1800s onwards a...

Melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age may have sped up continental drift, fueled volcanic eruptions

Apr 24, 2025 (SPX)

In the new research, geophysicists Tao Yuan and Shijie Zhong used computer simulations, or models, to travel back about 26,000 years into the planet's past. At ...

Melting snow and ice reinforce cloud-driven cooling slowing Arctic thaw

Apr 23, 2025 (SPX)

The phenomenon, known as Arctic amplification, sees the region warming two to four times faster than the global average. Traditionally, this is attributed to th...

'Hard on the body': Canadian troops train for Arctic defense

Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)

"Operating in the cold, it's hard on the body, but it also can be challenging with the aircraft as well," Vokey, an Air Force captain, told AFP during an exerci...

Head of US base in Greenland fired after Vance visit

Apr 11, 2025 (AFP)

Colonel Susannah Meyers, who had served as commander of the Pituffik Space Base since July, was removed after reports she distanced herself and the base from US...

Yana, a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth, goes under the scalpel

Apr 09, 2025 (AFP)

But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. Discovered last year, the calf -- nicknamed Yana, for the river basin whe...

Rubio reaffirms 'strong' US relationship with Denmark at meeting

Apr 03, 2025 (AFP)

"Secretary Rubio reaffirmed the strong relationship between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark," a US statement said after a meeting on the sidelines ...

Melting ice, more rain drive Southern Ocean cooling

Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)

The discrepancy between model results and observed cooling, Stanford University scientists have now found, comes down mainly to missing meltwater and underestim...

Drone reveals airborne clues to Greenland ice sheet melt

Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)

"We will be able to understand how water moves in and out of Greenland in the next few years," said first author Kevin Rozmiarek, a doctoral student at the Inst...

Denmark criticises 'tone' of Vance's Greenland comments

Mar 29, 2025 (AFP)

"We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it's being delivered," Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen...

Vance due in Greenland as anger mounts over Trump takeover bid

Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)

Trump insisted on Wednesday that the United States needed the vast Arctic island for national and international security, and has previously refused to rule out...

Vance says Denmark has 'under-invested' in Greenland

Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)

Vance made his comment during a trip to the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, a visit viewed by Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation. "Our message ...

Putin calls dismissing U.S. interest in Greenland a 'profound mistake'

Mar 28, 2025 (UPI)

Putin made the remarks while delivering a speech in the Russian port city of Murmansk, the largest municipality in the world north of the Arctic Circle. "In sho...

Arctic sea ice hits lowest peak in satellite record, says US agency

Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)

Arctic sea ice forms and expands during the dark, frigid northern winter, reaching its seasonal high point in March. But in recent years, less new ice has forme...

'It was beautiful': Mount Kenya's glaciers melting away

Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)

For nearly 25 years, the affable 50-year-old guide has been taking hikers to the peaks of Mount Kenya, nearly 5,000 metres (16,400 feet) above sea level, and ob...

Pituffik, the key US air base at the top of the world

Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)

Vance's visit has thrust the remote Arctic base into the spotlight, as US President Donald Trump locks horns with Denmark over his public desire to annex Greenl...

New model reveals global chain reaction behind ancient sea level surge

Mar 26, 2025 (SPX)

A new study by researchers at Brown University, published in *Nature Geoscience* and backed by the National Science Foundation, sheds light on the mystery. By r...

World's glacier mass shrank again in 2024, says UN

Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)

Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, the UN's World Meteorological Organization weather, climate and water agency said...

In US Northwest, South Cascade is where glacier science grew up

Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)

Generations of glaciologists have studied the slow-moving ice mass in Washington state, which was named "glacier of the year" on Friday by the World Meteorologi...

How melting glaciers affect everyday lives

Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)

Glacial melting can result in nuclear power plant shutdowns, agriculture and water resources being put at risk, and coastal cities being threatened by flooding....