Greenland

SAU 50 teachers receive a pep talk

seacoastonline.com     26-Aug-2008          

GREENLAND — Students arrive back at school today, but Monday was opening day for the staff. Teachers, administrators and school board members gathered at Greenland Central School for a welcome back breakfast and a pep...                    

Ancient suspects cleared in Viking mystery tale

hnn.us     25-Aug-2008          

Source: Canwest News Service (8-22-08)It's the oldest whodunit in Canadian history, and new research has conclusively ruled out one of the suspect aboriginal groups behind the retreat of Viking would-be colonists from...                    

NH acts against Internet shoe store

nashuatelegraph.com     24-Aug-2008          

CONCORD (AP) – New Hampshire's attorney general has taken an Internet shoe store to court, charging the owner took money from customers without delivering the goods. A Superior Court judge has ordered the business known...                    

Satellite Images Show Breakups at Two of Greenland?s Largest Glaciers; Major New Crack

energyplanet.info     22-Aug-2008   3 related          

The recent loss of 29 km2 of glacier. If the Petermann glacier breaks up back to the upstream crack, the loss would be as much as an additional 160 km2 (60 mi2). Click to enlarge. Credit: Byrd Polar Research Center, OSU....                    

Study to predict climate change

bbc.co.uk     23-Aug-2008          

The study will look at flood risk and ways of preventing deluges Academics in Perth are leading an international project to predict how climate change will affect communities and how they can prepare for it. The £1.9m...                    

ARTICLE: Breaking Away. Looking for the next South Ossetia. (slate.com)

weaponsofmoderndemocracy.blogspot.com     22-Aug-2008          

By Joshua Kucera Posted Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, at 6:55 AM ET Late one Saturday night last month, I found myself in a Greenland bar conversing with an extremely drunken member of the Royal Danish Navy. When he found out...                    

Proof our planet was hotter in past

shropshirestar.co.uk     22-Aug-2008          

LETTER - In 1995 the UN Inter-governmental panel on climate change included a global temperature anomaly chart which agreed with hundreds of scientific papers that dealt with the Medieval Warming Period and the Little...                    

Greenland Glacier Has Huge Crack

time.com     22-Aug-2008   48 related          

In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said...                    

Greenland Ice Core Reveals History Of Pollution In The Arctic

terradaily.com     22-Aug-2008   4 related          

Las Vegas NV (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 - New research, reported this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated...                    

True North Gems' Drilling Extends Aappaluttoq Mineralization at Greenland Ruby Project

newsblaze.com     21-Aug-2008   1 related          

True North Gems is pleased to announce that drilling completed to date as part of the 2008 exploration and pre-feasibility program has been successful in extending known ruby and pink sapphire mineralization and has intersected...