Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Greenland (, "Land of the Kalaallit"; ) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Greenland's Inuit people have countless terms in their language to describe ice in all its varieties.
This gallery of photographs by AP's Brennan Linsley likewise is something of a visual vocabulary for the striking and beautiful forms ice takes on and around the giant Arctic island.Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers are melting more and more as the world warms, sending gushing water and towering icebergs into the sea, threatening to raise ocean levels worldwide in the years and decades to come. Researchers are hard at work trying to gauge how much will melt and when.Some of the most spectacular icebergs are calved from the 6-kilometer-wide (4-mile-wide) Jakobshavn Glacier near this town on the west central coast, icebergs that push out into the 50-kilometer-long (30-mile-long) Ilulissat Ice Fjord, and then into Disko Bay and eventually the North Atlantic.The ice, much of it tens of thousands of years old, originates in the 1.7-million-square-kilometer (660,000-square-mile) ice sheet c...COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Greenpeace forced a Scottish company to stop drilling off Greenland on Tuesday by having four activists climb onto an oil rig.The activist...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.Poten...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in western Greenland have called off the search for two Norwegians who went missing after going hiking in the Arctic wilderness.Pol...
Police have arrested 14 Greenpeace activists who climbed aboard an oil rig off Greenland's coast to protest deepwater drilling in the Arctic.Four Greenpeace members ...
Three Greenpeace activists on Sunday climbed up an oil rig off Greenland's coast in an attempt to stop a Scottish oil company from starting deepwater drilling in the...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Rescuers have launched a search for 15 adventure tourists missing after being hit by a storm while kayaking in the icy waters off eastern ...
Greenpeace activists climbed aboard a huge oil rig off Istanbul on Friday in a bid to prevent it from reaching Greenland to begin deep-water drilling in the Arctic, ...
Scientists call new atlas 'misleading'
Officials say a strong earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated region in northwestern Greenland , but no injuries or damage have been reported.Peter Voss of The G...
New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already ...
AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — Native people of Greenland won a long battle Friday to extend their annual whale hunt to humpbacks, overriding objections from conservation-mi...
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Chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan breaks off glacier
The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people's frozen lands."The Inuit say that they are going to heat the 'siku' (the sea ice) to m...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday ventured north of the Arctic Circle and urged international cooperation in a region that could become a ne...
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union's high court temporarily exempted Inuit hunters in Canada and Greenland on Friday from the bloc's new trade ban on seal p...
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union's high court temporarily exempted Inuit hunters in Canada and Greenland on Friday from the bloc's new trade ban on seal p...
The emblem of the Olympic Winter Games is a colorful humanoid with arms spread wide, a contemporary interpretation of a stone landmark called an inukshuk with a hist...
The ice of Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting faster than expected and could help raise global sea levels by as much as 5 feet this century, dramaticall...
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