One of the criticisms that climate change deniers make is that many of the projections are based on computer models, which are fallible—as indeed they are. So far, though, as scientists check the actual observations against the...
The "dam cam" isn't working at the moment, but the Smithsonian Institution is on hand to film the demolition of the New Hampshire's Merrimack Village Dam, which began Wednesday morning. "Species like Atlantic salmon, Blueback...
WFP:There will be no flag-waving or patriotic chest-thumping, but Canadian scientists are quietly set to make one of this country's most important assertions of Arctic sovereignty in decades on Friday at a geology conference in...
With the world running out of oil and the search on for other rare resources, new importance is being placed on the vast frozen territory around the North Pole. A group of British cartographers has drawn up a new map to try and...
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN SYNDICATED COLUMNIST ILULISSAT, Greenland – Sometimes you just wish you were a photographer. I simply do not have the words to describe the awesome majesty of Greenland's Kangia Glacier, shedding massive...
I recently flew over the Canadian Arctic - and the views were spectacular. The pilot pointed out the rare opportunity to see Greenland and northern Canada in clear conditions. Peering out the window, there were coastlines and...
There was a period of global warming that peaked during the middle ages that seemed to provide optimum temperatures for human activity such as agriculture. It was a time of relative prosperity and not an era of coastal flooding...
Fewer caribou calves are being born and more are dying in West Greenland as a result of a warming climate, according to Eric Post, a Penn State associate professor of biology. Post, who believes that caribou may serve as an...
The hot environmental topic today (pun intended) is anthropogenic (human caused) climate change. The leading theory is that CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are causing a greenhouse gas effect that is causing global...
Dear Tom, once upon a time Greenland was called Greenland because...well..it was green. Or, maybe in Greenland, the minister of the interior or environment or whatever they call it there has never read the history of Greenland?...