After Greenland's prime minister repealed a law on uranium mining, Australian firms are staking out the country for exploitation. Local political opposition is heating up This is a story about an Australian company youve never heard of, operating in a nation that rarely enters the global media: Greenland. It's a story about the intense search for energy sources in a world thats moving away from the...
From colonial cartographers to digital depictions the continent is being sold short, says Think Africa Press About halfway through Jonathan Swift's boisterously witty epic poem On Poetry: A Rhapsody , the 18th century Anglo-Irish satirist briefly turns his attention to maps of Africa, writing: So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants...
Parliament agrees by a single vote to open self-governing territory up to mining sectors dominated by China and Australia Greenland's parliament has voted to end a decades-long prohibition on mining for radioactive materials such as uranium, further opening up the country to investors from Australia to China eager to tap its vast mineral resources. Thursday's vote, by 15-14 after a heated debate, also...
Philip Goodeve-Docker was trekking across Greenland ice sheet with two friends when group got into trouble A British man who had described his planned trek with two friends across part of the Greenland ice sheet as a "frankly nutty adventure" died after part of their tent was blown away in a snowstorm early into the 400-mile expedition. Philip Goodeve-Docker, a comedy promoter, was said to...
s miners, oil-workers, construction teams and industrialists descend on Greenland over the next few years to dig below the rapidly retreating icecap for its ores, hydrocrabons and minerals, no one will watch with more concern – or confidence – than prime minister Aleqa Hammond. The Inuit leader of a country with just 56,000 people who have lived in remote, scattered communities largely by fishing and...
s £1.5bn iron ore mine and new oil drilling licences for BP and Shell spark concern for environment London Mining, a British mineral company, is trying to attract Chinese and other international investors to build a £1.5bn iron ore mine just outside the Arctic Circle in Greenland. The move comes as BP and Shell join others exploring for oil and gas in the pristine waters off Greenland, as concerns...
s pristine waters to company responsible for Deepwater Horizon spill beggars belief BP has won permission to drill in the clear waters off Greenland, just three and a half years after abandoning similar plans to apply for a licence in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Greenpeace said it beggared belief that a company with BP's chequered track record would be allowed to work in one of...
s most successful exploration groups, has made its first discovery in the Arctic in a move which will encourage more drilling and anger green groups campaigning against fossil fuel extraction in the region. Shares in Tullow climbed more than 3% as well operator OMV said it had struck a reservoir in the Barents Sea off the far north of Norway which could contain up to 160m barrels of oil and 40bn cubic...
s still a lot left to discover." The canyon was uncovered by airborne radar which can penetrate ice and bounce off the land beneath. Scientists pieced together radar measurements covering thousands of kilometres collected by Arctic researchers over several decades. They found evidence of a fissure in the bedrock stretching northwards almost from the centre of Greenland. The canyon ends in a deep fjord...
s most sparsely populated country could be covered by swaths of forests instead of barren ice sheet, experts say Climate change could bring about the greening of Greenland by the end of the century, scientists predict. Today only four indigenous tree species grow on the island, confined to small areas in the south. Three-quarters of Greenland, the world's most sparsely populated country, is covered...
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s cargo haulers, had landed at Camp Raven all season without incident, but the ice sheet is weakening, she said. "Ice is like silly putty. If you move it slowly it goes like this," she said, drawing her hands slowly apart. "But if you yank it, it will snap … That is what is happening with the ice sheet." The cracks at Raven would eventually turn into big crevasses, she said. Would the radar be able...
s most inhospitable terrain is being taken. Researchers are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – drones – to explore the last great repositories of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska. About two dozen universities and research organisations, including Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, have registered as drone operators, according to a list released last year to the...
s mineral wealth. Five marine mammal researchers will also be aboard the Oden to conduct acoustic research and combine conventional observations with more high-tech approaches. The multinational group sailed from Longyearbyen in the Svalbard archipelago. It includes Arctic offshore engineering scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and colleagues from nine international...
s poles had snapped, forcing the men to huddle in its outside porch. Hackney said he tried to go outside to move the snow but could not make it. Visibility was 2cm (0.8ins). "I was concerned there would be suffocation under a blanket of snow," he said. Hackney called for help on a satellite phone and was told that it was impossible to get a helicopter to them, so the men had to wait it out. In Chilbolton,...
s acting administrator, said on a conference call. "Our planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place." The scientists were reluctant to point directly to the cause of the striking changes in the climate. But the annual reports are typically used by the federal government to prepare for the future, and in June president Barack Obama used his climate address to direct government agencies to begin planning...
As Greenlanders adapt to the changing climate, researchers study the phenomenon of the melting glaciers and the long-term ramifications for the world Mee-Lai Stone ...
Climate News Network: New research shows that glaciologists still cannot say for certain whether the Earth's north and south polar ice is melting faster Tim Radford ...
s research then got broader public visibility after climate activist and writer Bill McKibben covered it in Rolling Stone magazine . The basic premise of Box's study was that observations reveal a progressive darkening of Greenland ice. Darkening causes the white snow surface to absorb more sunlight which in turn increases melting. Given that this process is likely to continue, the impact on Greenland...
s novel Brick Lane , British film-maker Sarah Gavron's Anglo-Danish documentary turns a warm eye on four seasons, most of them inhospitably cold, in the small Inuit township of Niaqornat in north-west Greenland. Most of the 50-odd inhabitants are related to one another, a rare exception being a newcomer from the south whose job it is to go from house to house, each of them wooden and painted in cheerful...