Tag: Greenland
Global warming: Significant warming on the Greenland ice sheet
Global warming Significant warming on the Greenland ice sheet The calving front of Russell Glacier, Kangerlussuaq. photo © Sepp Kipfstuhl/Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmhol/dpa The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting and…
Travel book to the Arctic: In the melting ice of Greenland – Travel
Of Irene Helmes A human awakens. Somehow manages to get up and do the morning routine. The highlight: hot coffee. After work he drags himself to dinner, exhausted but also…
Closer to Europe in the future: Greenland changes time zone
Status: 11/25/2022 9:04 p.m Greenland moves one hour closer to Europe from October. The parliament in Nuuk has decided to change the time zones for a large part of the…
Documentary film “Into The Ice” in the cinema: In the not so eternal ice – culture
Midday in the frozen desert: Professor Jason Box uses the sun, strips down to his underpants, sunglasses and neon-colored headscarf, throws his sleeping mat in the snow and does a…
Climate: Which tipping points threaten when? – Knowledge
Of Benjamin von Brackel If you want to spread a bad mood, you only have to drop the term “tipping points”. If the world warms above certain thresholds, this could…
Greenland: At least 27 centimeters sea rise – knowledge
Even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immediately, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet would cause global sea levels to rise by at least 27 centimeters. This is the…
Star restaurant in Greenland: When whale fat and seal blood become haute cuisine
Haute cuisine in Greenland Raw whale fat and seal blood: gourmets even travel to the eternal ice for this starred restaurant A whale is pulled out of the water. Here…
Greenland: The fading white – Nasa photos show how the northern world is melting away
In Europe, the heat of this summer is literally visible. While Germany is plagued by wildfires and droughts, the heat in the far north is taking a more insidious toll.…
Archaeology: Why did the Vikings leave Greenland? – Knowledge
Of Jacob Wetzel Was Greenland really as green as the name suggests in Viking times? No one knows for sure, but it’s unlikely. The seafarer Erik the Red called the…
Lost Places at the End of the World: The abandoned Bluie East Two Air Force Base in Greenland
During the Second World War, deadly dramas took place in the icy waters of the North Atlantic: Due to their initial superiority, submarines of the German Navy sank countless Allied…