Greenland’s glacier retreat rate doubles over two decades

Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, the UN's World Meteorological Organization weather, climate and water agency said - Copyright AFP FAYEZ NURELDINE A new study documents how Greenland’s peripheral...

Global Thoughts: Greenland, Ukraine and All That

By Gwynne Dyer Last Wednesday the Danish foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen to his office to complain that the United States is running a covert operation in Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the...

From Arctic To Siachen: As NATO ‘Rushes’ Troops  To N. Europe, How It Echoes India’s Experience On World’s Highest Battlefield

High altitude weather warfare is as much a battle against nature as it is against adversaries. From NATO forces training in the Arctic to India’s decades-long deployment at Siachen, militaries around the world continue to grapple with the brutal...

Experts concerned after finding juvenile creature thousands of miles from its natural habitat: 'An ambassador from the Far North'

Beachgoers in Ostend, Belgium, had a rare sight of a young hooded seal. The species, native to the Arctic, wandered thousands of miles away from its icy habitat, and experts see its arrival as a sign that Earth's warming is impacting the Arctic's...

Greenland and its Neighbours

Greenland has this year unexpectedly ended up high in the news, after President Donald Trump said that he wants the USA to take over the huge island, which has for several hundred years been a part of Denmark. Greenland is a total of 2.16 million...

‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In Greenland Killer Whale Blubber

Forever chemicals are everywhere, including in the blubber of Greenland killer whales. Photo: Unsplash For a few years now, we’ve all been aware of the fact that pretty much everything is full of “forever chemicals.” That term refers to per- and...

Climate change

by John Schneeberger, Hamilton Misinformation is widespread on the Internet, case in point Joe Rogan‘s interview with Mel Gibson, where the topic was climate change. Not that either are experts on climate change, as was indicated by their ignorant...

Polar Geoengineering Debate Rages as Climate Change Melts Ice

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A “civil war” is brewing in polar science. As climate change rapidly melts Earth’s ice, sides are being drawn among scientists on whether—and how—science...

Are We Distracting Ourselves Into Climate Catastrophe?

September 11, 2025 When shocking news about how soon civilization might collapse is overshadowed by Taylor Swift’s engagement, we might have a problem. Edit Ad Policy A man on a rooftop looks at approaching flames as the Springs fire continues to...

'Serious adverse and unintended consequences': Polar geoengineering isn't the answer to climate change

Our planet continues to warm because of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The polar regions are especially vulnerable to this warming. Sea ice extent is already declining in both the Arctic and Antarctic. The Greenland and Antarctic...

Trump’s Climate Contrarians Disband

Current conditions: Cooler air is dropping temperatures on the Pacific Coast and Nevada by as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit • Hurricane Kiko lost intensity and passed north of Hawaii • The volcano Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia, is erupting...

Greenland Resources signs MOU with Hempel for molybdenum supply

Greenland Resources announces the signing of a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) for long term molybdenum supply with Düsseldorf based company Hempel Metallurgical GmbH, a leading supplier of molybdenum to the German steel industry. Based on...

The Politics of Helium

Helium, once known primarily for its niche industrial uses, has emerged as a strategic political asset amid rising geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainties. Its critical role in next-generation technologies such as semiconductors, space...

Ghana-China Climate Summit Addresses Cooperation on Environmental Challenges

Senior officials from Ghana and China will convene next week to strengthen bilateral cooperation on climate action and sustainable development, as both nations grapple with mounting environmental pressures. The Ghana-China Climate Summit,...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025: the Highly Commended Photos so Far

The Natural History Museum has unveiled the first images from its sixty-first Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Selected from an all-time high of over 60,636 entries, they range from the tense face-off between a lion and a cobra to...

The struggle for Greenland

Early one morning in the waning days of Donald Trump’s second term, a contingent of US marines leaves the Pituffik Space Base in northern Greenland under the guise of a training exercise. They secure the territory’s airports and take control of...

Poles to pensions, how nature photographer Doug Allan tackles climate breakdown

Even getting there was part of the adventure: with a battered passport and a world less trampled by tourists, when wildlife filming with reels of film and clunky kit that didn’t like the wet or deep freeze temperatures – precisely the environments...

Australia has a carbon 'budget'. It's due to be spent by 2036

The world has a carbon "budget": the total amount that can be emitted before it is considered likely that the world will breach 2°C of warming. That global budget is 1,700 gigatonnes of emissions between 2000 and 2050. Stay under 1,700Gt of CO2-e...

Amid influx of tourists, Greenland’s capital sees strained infrastructure

Maalia Skifte stands behind the coffee bar at Cafe Lolo in downtown Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. The server and barista have noticed a growing number of tourists in the city. “They kind of take over the town, you can see them everywhere,” Skifte...

Charlie Kirk: From the Tea Party to MAGA, an ascent imbued with hate

He was 31, a scion of Chicago's upper-middle class who rose to become the megaphone of the new right on American campuses, despite never having attended a university or earned a degree. Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA, a kind of “youth...