Greenland and the Faroe Islands each have two members of the 179-member Folketing (Photo: Folketinget / Christoffer Regild) A day after incumbent Danish political party Socialdemokraterne secured a one-seat margin in Tuesday’s general election and the right to lead...
The idea sounds simple: A curtain should prevent too much warm water from reaching the ice edge along the bottom and melting the ice from below. At the same time, however, the curtain should be flexible enough to allow icebergs from the glacier to drift out. Image:...
A catamaran is towed alongside the icebreaker Polarstern for a survey of plastic pollution in the Arctic Ocean (Photo: AWI / Esther Horvath / Robex) Greenland has joined a group of 30 countries that are pushing for a treaty that would put an end to plastic litter by...
While humpback whales are already well-known “singers” in the Arctic, the aim is to acoustically track icebergs in the Davis Strait. At least that’s the plan of researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI and an Irish artist. Image: Dr...
Among the remains of early peoples in Greenland are numerous bones, including those of bowhead whales. But were these huge animals also regularly hunted thousands of years ago? Photo: Heiner Kubny The early settlers of Greenland, which include successively the Saqqaq,...