The Latest Breaking News from Greenland

The recovered DNA contains fragments of genetic material from plants, corals, mastodons and other animals.

The weather pattern is uncannily similar to the winter of 2009-10, which produced Mid-Atlantic blizzards.

At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath the mouth of a fjord has lain frozen and undisturbed for 2 million years.

Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.

The microscopic fragments, found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland, are twice the age of the previous oldest DNA.

The dramatic vanishing of polar ice sheets will cause catastrophic sea level rise that will threaten cities, according to a major new study

"Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is one of several factor that contributes to global sea level rise"

Glacier expert Dr Donald Slater says Ireland will be affected as melting glaciers contribute to sea level rises

RESEARCHERS from the University of Edinburgh have found that climate change may be having more impact on the melting Greenland ice sheet than…

Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

The former president once compared the purchase of the Scandanavian island to a ‘large real estate deal’