No place but home (Photo: Julia Hager) For anyone who wants to get to Greenland aboard a commercial airliner, there is one option: the daily Air Greenland flight between Copenhagen and Kangerlussuaq, site of the country’s primary international airport. So, when Dansk...
Volcanic eruptions leave their traces in the perpetual ice of the polar regions by blasting particles and gases into the atmosphere, which are then trapped in the ice in Greenland and Antarctica and can be measured by researchers such as Professor Michael Sigl (small...
The Greenlandic towns, like Uummannaq, are basically built on the coast. Here, they are influenced by numerous factors that will in turn respond to climate change and alter the lives and lifestyles of the population. Picture: Dr Michael Wenger The effects of the...
The edge of the Hiawatha glacier in northwestern Greenland, hiding the asteroid’s impact crater under its ice masses. Photo: Pierre Beck Beneath Greenland’s ice sheet lies the huge Hiawatha crater, caused by the impact of the asteroid of the same name....
Moulin bleu! (Photo: Poul Christoffersen / Cambridge University) It is no secret that the Greenland ice sheet has the potential to be a major contributor to global sea-level rise: if it melted entirely, the seas would rise by seven metres. This is because, unlike sea...