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Greenpeace Occupies Rig in Arctic Drilling Protest

ANKARA, Turkey -- Greenpeace activists climbed aboard an oil rig off Istanbul on Friday in a bid to prevent it from reaching Greenland to begin deep-water drilling in the Arctic, but the vessel continued on its course undeterred. The environmental group said eleven activists, some in rock-climbing gear, used speedboats to...

Opinion: Why We Need to 'Cool It' on Global Warming

(Nov. 12) -- For 20 years now, we've been debating what (if anything) we should do about global warming, with very little to show for it. Despite grandiose pledges such as the 2008 promise by the Group of Eight industrialized nations to work to cut global carbon emissions in half by 2050, no meaningful international...

Book Shows What's on the World's Dining Tables

(Sept. 2) -- Think it's hard enough to arrange a dinner date? Try arranging 80 of them in 30 countries over a three-year period. That's one of the struggles that Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio faced while writing their book, "What I Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets" (Ten Speed Press), which details what 80 different...

Giant Greenland Iceberg Update: Where It's Heading

(Aug. 9) -- If you've booked a late-summer cruise of the north Atlantic, you may want to keep an eye out for a particularly large chunk of floating ice. On Aug. 5, an iceberg four times the size of Manhattan separated from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. Estimated at 92 square miles and 600 feet thick, the unnamed iceberg...

Giant Ice Island Breaks Off From Greenland

(Aug. 7) -- A giant chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan has broken off from one of Greenland's two biggest glaciers, creating the largest Arctic iceberg since 1962. The new ice island has a surface area of about 100 square miles and a thickness of about half the height of the Empire State Building. It broke off...

greenland News From the Web

06/03/12 Two Numbers: One Matters, the Other Gets All the... Source: Alt Energy Stocks This morning, in the realm of those who follow such things, the world became aware of two newsworthy numbers, 69,000 and 400.
06/02/12 1930s photos show Greenland glaciers retreating faster... Source: The Register - London - UK Recently unearthed photographs taken by Danish explorers in the 1930s show glaciers in Greenland retreating faster than they are today, according to researchers.
06/01/12 Archive photos show glaciers in retreat in the 1930s. Source: Environmental Health News We all know that Greenland's glaciers are melting but satellite images only go back so far making it difficult to compare current changes with those in the past.
05/31/12 Arctic CO2 Hitting 400ppm - Greenland Sets New High... Source: Treehugger The last time global CO2 levels were 400 parts per million was 800,000 years ago.
05/31/12 Continued Atlantic Salmon Recovery Hinges on... Source: PRWeb St. Andrews, NB Canada (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 The outcomes of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from June 3 to 8, have the ability to make or break the beginnings of wild Atlantic salmon restoration in North America.

Background on greenland

Greenland (, "Land of the Kalaallit"; ) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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