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Greenland

As the Arctic Grows Noisier, Narwhals Are Becoming Quieter

Scientists say increasing shipping traffic is interfering with the whales’ ability to hunt and communicate. To protect the animals, conservation groups are urging the International Maritime Organization to instate mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise.

By Teresa Tomassoni

Narwhals rely on echolocation to survive in the Arctic. But increasing shipping noise is jeopardizing their ability to communicate, navigate and hunt. Credit: naturepl.com/Doug Allen/WWF
Private fishing boats and state-owned trawlers fill Nuuk's industrial harbor. While usually a peaceful economic hub, the waterfront has become a focal point for regional security as the recent landing site for Danish special forces. Credit: Johnny Sturgeon/InsideClimate News

What Trump Doesn’t Understand About Greenland

By Johnny Sturgeon

Boaters in a kayak off the coast of La Jolla Shores, California, in December 2025. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year

By Johnny Sturgeon

A PolarOil storage facility is seen on March 26, 2025, in Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images

As Trump Eyes Greenland, What Could That Mean for Island’s Mineral Wealth and Environment?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A view of the Shoesmith Glacier on Horseshoe Island on Feb. 21. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica

By Bob Berwyn

Melting ice is seen in the bay of Nuuk, Greenland, on March 10. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World

By Maddy Keyes

Climate Change Could Thwart Trump’s Efforts to Occupy Greenland

By Kiley Price

Crevasses upstream of the terminus of the Jakobshavn Isbræ (Sermeq Kujalleq) Glacier in west-central Greenland, a region where a new study shows a significant spread of crevasses. Photo courtesy William Colgan, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

New 3-D Study of the Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Glaciers Falling Apart Faster Than Expected

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the small Arctic town of Narsaq in southern Greenland, where Greenland Minerals arrived in 2007. Credit: Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How to Buy a Piece of a Lawsuit and Impoverish a Country

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

University of Vermont researcher Halley Mastro examines fossilized remnants of willow, fungi and moss spores found beneath a two-mile deep layer of ice in Greenland. Credit: University of Vermont

New Study Reveals Signs of an Ancient Tundra Ecosystem Beneath Greenland’s Thickest Ice

By Bob Berwyn

New research showing previously unmapped areas of meltwater on the surface Antarctic ice shelves raises concerns about the large-scale disintegration of those floating shelves. Credit: Sergio Pitamitz/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Study Maps Giant Slush Zones as New Threat to Antarctic Ice

By Bob Berwyn

The Wamme river is seen at a low level during the European heatwave on Aug 10, 2022 in Rochefort, Belgium. Credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Study Pinpoints Links Between Melting Arctic Ice and Summertime Extreme Weather in Europe

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of melting glaciers in Scoresby Fjord near Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland on Aug. 21, 2023. Credit: Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images

A New Study Revealed Big Underestimates of Greenland Ice Loss—and the Power of New Technologies to Track the Changes

By Moriah McDonald

The Ilulissat Ice fjord in Greenland runs west 25 miles from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay close to Ilulissat town. Credit: Veronique Durruty/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet

By Bob Berwyn

The high arctic ecosystem at Zackenberg Research Station in remote Northeast Greenland has been monitored since 1996 as part of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring program. The station is owned by the Greenland Government and run by Aarhus University, Denmark. Credit: Piotr Łukasik.

On the Coast of Greenland, Early Arctic Spring Has Been Replaced by Seasonal Extremes, New Research Shows

By Lydia Larsen

A tourist at the Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO World Heritage site, on Sept. 7, 2022. The ice there has been dramatically receding from year to year. Credit: Natasha Jessen-Petersen

This Arctic US Air Base Has Its Eyes on Russia. But Climate is a Bigger Threat

By Natasha Maki Jessen-Petersen

An aerial view of meltwater lakes formed at the Russell Glacier front, part of the Greenland ice sheet in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on Aug. 16, 2022. Credit: Lukasz Larsson Warzecha/Getty Images

One of the World’s Coldest Places Is Now the Warmest it’s Been in 1,000 Years, Scientists Say

By Bob Berwyn

Beewise's Beehome is a high-tech beehive that helps beekeepers remotely monitor and care for their bees. Credit: Beewise

Warming Trends: Climate Clues Deep in the Ocean, Robotic Bee Hives and Greenland’s Big Melt

By Katelyn Weisbrod, Bob Berwyn

The Greenland Ice Sheet, which has enough frozen water to raise sea levels by 20 feet, melted away completely at least once about 1 million years ago, new research shows. Credit: Joshua Brown

Long-lost Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat

By Bob Berwyn

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