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15 Sep 2024

Explained: Why Earth Vibrated For 9 Days Continuously In 2023?

Due to climate change and rising global temperatures, the glaciers had been gradually thinning. When the glacier finally gave way, it sent a colossal amount of debris tumbling into the fjord, displacing enough material to fill around 10,000 Olympic-sized pools.

National Parks In the world

12 Sep 2024

5 Massive National Parks That Cover Entire Countries

The greatest national parks in the world are enormous, larger than the majority of countries. The vast 972,000 km² is shared by Quttinirpaaq National Park and Northeast Greenland National Park in Greenland. While Gates of the Arctic National Park in the United States is 336,000 km² in size, Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is 344,400 km² in size. Last but not least, the 328,000 km² Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in Botswana and South Africa safeguards a variety of ecosystems and rare species.

snowfall in greenland

31 Jul 2022

Greenland is under threat due to climate change

Greenland, the world's largest island, has been covered by a thick sheet of ice for thousands of years. But now it is under threat due to climate change. View Report

13 Apr 2022

Five reasons to watch Gerald Butler’s ‘Greenland’

Gerald Butler's Greenland, the movie is all set to release in Hindi, Tamil and English exclusively on Lionsgate Play on 15th April, 2022.

22 Aug 2019

Donald Trump cancels visit, calls Danish PM's rebuff of Greenland idea 'nasty'

President Donald Trump declared Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen`s dismissal of his idea to buy Greenland "nasty" and an affront to the United States on Wednesday, a day after shocking Danes by cancelling a Copenhagen visit over the rebuff.

16 Aug 2019

Not for sale: Greenland on Trump's plan to buy the world's biggest island

Trump is due to visit Copenhagen in September and the Arctic will be on the agenda during meetings with the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.

03 Aug 2019

Greenland loses 11 billion tonnes of ice in one day

Greenland's ice sheet witnessed its biggest melting down of the season as it lost around 11 billion tonnes of surface ice to oceans in a single day, due to the persistent heatwave causing record high temperatures across Europe.

enormous solar storm

12 Mar 2019

Traces of 'enormous solar storm' that hit earth 2,600 ago found in Greenland

The “enormous” solar storm is believed to have stuck the ancient Earth around 2,600 years ago.

22 Jan 2019

Greenland ice melt reaching 'tipping point': Study

Greenland`s ice has historically melted in cycles due to natural weather phenomena, but rising temperatures have exacerbated the trend.

09 Nov 2018

Earthquake of magnitude 6.8 hits off Greenland, says USGS

The quake initially reported as a magnitude 7.1, struck at 0149 GMT.

26 May 2017

NASA study on hottest summers in Greenland churned out a new discovery and it's worrying!

This solitary wave is a new discovery that may increase the potential for sustained ice loss in Greenland as the climate continues to warm, with implications for the future rate of sea level rise.

31 Mar 2017

Some of Greenland's coastal ice may be lost by 2100: Study

The new study suggests that the melting of Greenland's coastal ice will raise global sea level by about 1.5 inches by 2100.

World's oldest fossils

01 Sep 2016

World's oldest fossils spotted by Australian researchers

Along with the fossils, they have also found signs that diverse life forms lived on Earth upto 3.7 billion years ago.

10 Jun 2016

Melting Greenland ice linked to faster Arctic warming: Study

A new study was conducted by a group of scientists which revealed that melting ice in Greenland is linked to faster warming of the Arctic compared to the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.

25 May 2016

Spectacular view of fjord and glacier from NASA's IceBridge - See pic!

This year marks IceBridge's eighth spring campaign of science flights over Arctic sea and land.

Greenland glaciers

25 Apr 2016

Scientists say melting of Greenland glaciers worse than thought

The findings showed “the glaciers in Greenland are more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.

21 Apr 2016

Want to live longer? Cut down your sitting time by 71 minutes!

A new study suggests that reducing sitting time at work by 71 minutes per day can have positive effect in the long.

14 Apr 2016

Greenland sees record early melting of ice sheet

"We had to check that our models were still working properly," climate scientist Peter Langen told the agency's Polar Portal website.

08 Apr 2016

Earth's internal heat driving Greenland's ice melt

An international team of geoscientists has found that Greenland sits over an area of abnormally hot mantle material that drives a widespread melting beneath the ice sheet and rapid ice flow over a distance of several hundred kms.

05 Apr 2016

Watch: OMG! NASA begins its earth expedition

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