The Latest Breaking News from Greenland

The secretary bird photograph was among the winners of the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Prize.

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down. That’s a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the world, influencing both temperatures and rainfall.

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has requested French nationality, his lawyer Jean Tamalet told AFP on Thursday, as Paris pushes for his release from a Greenland jail where he is being held pending possible extradition to Japan.

How the US presidential election has been blighted by a campaign of online disinformation including misogynist and racist content. Annette Young talks to American disinformation specialist, Nina Jankowicz about how governments need to step up to prevent the erosion of democracy by toxic misinformation. Plus a group of indigenous women…

Millions of years ago, the climate was much warmer and wetter climate than today. But exactly how much warmer and wetter?

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Geoscientists studying 200m-high wave that hit Greenland coast last year warn of potentially disastrous impact

Greenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal.

Organic fossils found under Greenland show that the middle of the landmass was ice free, serving as habitat for life within the last 1 to 2 million years.

As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-colored spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view.