Greenland is often considered by scientists to be ground zero of the Earth’s climate change. The massive island is in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet ...
Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet. Greenland is ...
But it turns out the center of Greenland was full of green tundra not so long ago, indicating the ice sheet might be less resistant to climate change than scientists realized. Using an ice core sample ...
Melting ice and rapidly rising Arctic temperatures are giving Greenland a front-row seat to the climate crisis, but some also see economic opportunities as climate change reshapes the country.
They affect much of the world, and existing climate models predict that by the end of the century, they will become 50-290% more frequent in Greenland, western North America, east Asia ...