A cleaner way of sailing is coming into the picture (Photo: MAN Energy Solutions) One of the ironies of global warming is that, as the planet heats up and sea ice in the Arctic melts, ships will be able to take a shorter, more northerly route on once-frozen waterways...
Automated and on location (Photo: Geus) Calculating how much Greenland’s ice sheet grows or shrinks each year is straightforward: scientists compute how much snow fell during the part of the year when the ice cap grows and then subtract how much of the ice melts or...
No country for FOMO (Photo: Joe Harrigan / US Antarctic Program) By now, most will associate the firm Starlink with its business of providing internet services to people in places where there previously has been no connection of any sort. To date, it has launched some...
(Artist’s conception: SMU) Think of large, plant-eating dinosaurs, and the setting that comes to mind is likely an ancient tropical swamp, not a coastal environment that is akin America’s Pacific Northwest. That, though, appears precisely to have been the type...
A new time is on its horizon For most of its history as a Danish colony, then county and now semi-independent country, when a clock has chimed noon most places in Greenland, it has stuck just eight times in metropolitan Denmark. The time difference gives people in...