Browsing: Arctic

Alaska’s Drunken Forest, where trees are leaning or falling to the ground due to thawing permafrostGlobal warming image/Shutterstock Thawing permafrost in Arctic forests could cause trees…

James Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies, left) and John Franklin (Ciarán Hinds)James Blake/Falklands Marine Heritage Trust terrorismAMCShowrunner: David Kajganich, Sue Hugh In September, the horrifying truth was revealed.…

The first explorers to reach the North Pole spent weeks dragging their sleds over rough pack ice. Now, with climate change causing a catastrophic melting of…

Seawater is injected onto the snow covering the sea ice to thicken the ice.Real Ice/www.realice.eco A bold plan to inject seawater into the frozen Arctic Ocean…

Freshwater is Water is becoming increasingly scarce in many countries, but not in Greenland. Greenland’s ice sheet contains about 6.5 percent of the world’s freshwater, and…

Researchers investigate archaeological site in Greenland’s Wanderdal ValleyHuja Larsen About 4,500 years ago, around the time the Great Pyramids of Giza were built and the Indus…

It was 21 years ago that I walked and swam alone, unsupported, across the icy Arctic Ocean from Canada to the North Pole, a feat that…

Floating iceberg in Noop Kangerua fjord, GreenlandShutterstock/Keith Levitt Greenland’s coast is dotted with thousands of lakes, each held back by a wall of ice, but sometimes…