Industrial chemicals making polar bears poorly
Polar bears from Greenland are becoming ill because of chemicals which make their way from the industrialised world to the Arctic via air and sea curr...
Tensions bubble as Cairn fails again
British oil company Cairn Energy has announced that it has again failed to strike black gold at its sixth controversial well off the coast of Greenlan...
Atlas shows Greenland is losing its ice
The latest edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World reveals a somewhat different picture of Greenland than in the edition of the book whi...
Greenland rocks unlock golden shower secrets
Scientists say rocks from Greenland prove that precious metals, such as gold, were deposited in the Earth’s crust by asteroid showers billions of year...
Stranded mountaineers in lucky Greenland rescue
A group of British climbers, cut off on their route by rising floodwaters, have been rescued from polar bear territory in Greenland by pure chance.
No oil found at Cairn’s Greenland well
British oil and gas explorer Cairn Energy has announced that it failed to find oil at one of its controversial wells off the coast of Greenland.
Greenland melts most in 50 years
The ice sheet in Greenland melted more last year than it has done for more than 50 years, according to US government scientists.
Giant Greenland ice slab heads for Canada
A slab of ice the size of Bermuda, which broke off a Greenland glacier in August last year, is making headway towards Canada.