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WILL ARCTIC TRADE PROMPT CHINA TO BUILD AN 'ICE-WATER NAVY'?
In addition to Canada, the Arctic takes in the northern reaches of Russia, Alaska, Greenland an autonomous Danish territory and Scandinavia... READ MORE›
2016 A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM A RAINBOW-COLOURED PERSPECTIVE
2016 was also the year that, for the first time, a British heir to the throne agreed to be photographed for a gay magazine... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP AND RUSSIA: NORWAY URGES CLEAR, PREDICTABLE US POLICY ON MOSCOW
U.S. and NATO officials said this high level of Russian submarine activity was last seen during the end of the Cold War in the 1990s... READ MORE›
THE COUNTRY SET TO CASH IN ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked if he is fearful about the impact of climate change, T?nnes Kaka Berthelsen's response is typical of many Greenlanders... READ MORE›
CANADIAN FORCES ACCUSED OF SYSTEMIC RACISM IN LAWSUIT BY 3 EX-MILITARY MEMBERS
But unfortunately, the Canadian Forces has failed to look after its own with respect to these most basic human rights, the claim goes on to say... READ MORE›
CLEAR ABANDONED US MILITARY WASTE, GREENLAND URGES DENMARK
Thirty-three American military bases and radar stations were built on the world's largest island under a 1951 deal between NATO allies Denmark and the US... READ MORE›
DENMARK URGED TO CLEAN UP US MILITARY WASTE IN GREENLAND
The US military was interested in Greenland during the Cold War due to its strategic location in the Arctic... READ MORE›
DENMARK URGED TO CLEAN UP US MILITARY WASTE IN GREENLAND
At a meeting on Nov. 17 in Nuuk, the Greenland capital, to discuss the issue, Jensen said Denmark's Environment Ministry was investigating the environmental risks... READ MORE›
ARTICLE 50 DUSTING OFF THE ROAD MAP FOR BREXIT
LONDON -- Britain voted back in June to leave the European Union... READ MORE›
THESE ARE THE WORLD'S LONGEST FLIGHTS
The Australian airline will launch the flight only if it can arrive and depart from the Qantas domestic facility at Perth... READ MORE›
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COLLAPSING GREENLAND GLACIER COULD RAISE SEA LEVELS BY HALF A METRE, SAY SCIENTISTS
Huge Zachariae Isstrom glacier has begun to break up, starting a rapid retreat that could continue to raise sea levels for decades to come... READ MORE›
DEAR REFUGEES, DON'T COME HERE
Denmark, like Britain, has an exemption from European Union-wide asylum regulations that aim to redistribute refugees... READ MORE›
NATO COUNTRIES BEGIN LARGEST WAR GAME IN EASTERN EUROPE SINCE COLD WAR
It represents the biggest movement of foreign allied troops in Poland in peace time... READ MORE›
ARCTIC ICE 'GREW BY A THIRD' AFTER COOL SUMMER IN 2013
The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013... READ MORE›
EASYJET AIRLINE STAFF PHOTOGRAPH SOLAR ECLIPSE AT 37,000FT IN THE AIR
UK flight was en route to Icelandic capital as it passed over the Faroe Islands Rose Troup Buchanan Rose is an online news reporter... READ MORE›
DEBRIS FROM ABANDONED WW II-ERA ARCTIC MILITARY BASE POLLUTING GREENLAND
When Bluie East II, a U.S. military base built in eastern Greenland in 1942, was abandoned in 1947, everything was left behind to rust... READ MORE›
GREENLAND'S ICE MELT ACCELERATING AS SURFACE DARKENS, RAISING SEA LEVELS
At the same time, summer near-surface temperatures in Greenland have increased at a rate of around 0.74C per decade, causing the ice to melt... READ MORE›
VIKINGS' MYSTERIOUS ABANDONMENT OF GREENLAND WAS NOT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, STUDY SUGGESTS
All of this does, of course, raise the question of why, if it's not a simple climate change story, the Norse eventually abandoned their Greenland settlements... READ MORE›
GREENLAND ICE MELT OFF TO RECORD EARLY START
Is important because it's the second-biggest potential ice-melt contributor to sea-level rise, only behind Antarctica's ice sheet... READ MORE›
ARCTIC SEA ICE FELL TO RECORD LOW FOR MAY
Warm air from Siberia and northern Europe were blamed for the decline in Arctic sea ice, which is consistent with predictions of climate change... READ MORE›
RUSSIA WILL ACT TO NEUTRALIZE U.S. MISSILE SHIELD THREAT
Russia will act to neutralize U.S. missile shield threat Putin... READ MORE›
SYDNEY HEATWAVE AND NEW YORK SNOWSTORM
The trouble is, teasing out what's natural variability and what's the global warming signature is very difficult... READ MORE›
COMMENTARY: ITA??S TIME FOR EUROPE TO STOP HOLDING REFERENDUMS
Switzerland, which holds the torch for direct democracy, has held two referendums on joining the European Union... READ MORE›
CLIMATE SCIENTISTS URGE OBAMA TO RULE OUT MORE ARCTIC OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION
The scientists said in the letter that expanding Arctic marine protection would help counter the effects of climate change... READ MORE›
UNCHARTED WATERS: MEGA-CRUISE SHIPS SAIL THE ARCTIC
It bans heavy fuel oil in the Antarctic, for instance, but merely encourages ships not to use it in the Arctic... READ MORE›
NORWEGIAN REPLICA OF VIKING SHIP ARRIVES IN EASTERN ONTARIO
Voyage tests theory of Viking arrival in eastern Ontario a millennium ago... READ MORE›
THIS SHARK LIVES TO ABOUT 400, DOESN'T HAVE SEX BEFORE 150
The new research suggests that Greenland sharks only reach sexual maturity at about 150 years old... READ MORE›
'NEXT YEAR OR THE YEAR AFTER, THE ARCTIC WILL BE FREE OF ICE'
Global warming is generally associated with increased fossil-fuel burning and consequent rises in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide... READ MORE›
ARTIST HAULS GREENLAND ICE TO PARIS AS A REMINDER OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The ice was pulled from Greenland's Nuuk Fjord and transported in refrigerated containers by sea to Denmark... READ MORE›
GIANT CRUISE SHIP MAKES HISTORIC VOYAGE IN MELTING ARCTIC
The cruise company is planning another Alaska-to-New York City voyage next August, catering to travelers like the Lentzes... READ MORE›
AROUND THE WORLD IN 20 DAYS: FOLLOW TWO REPORTERS ON A 21,623-MILE JOURNEY
On the island, Jabin and I moved like the Icelandic wind that could seemingly push the Nordic country closer to Greenland... READ MORE›
ICE SHEETS' THAW TO SPEED SEA LEVEL RISE, THREATENING FLORIDA, TOKYO, PACIFIC ISLES
Ice sheets' thaw to speed sea level rise, threatening Florida, Tokyo, Pacific isles NASA scientists... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS FEAR WE'RE ABOUT TO BLOW PAST THE RED LINE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
"I really think the world is definitely on a pathway, as we're suggesting in that paper, past the 2 degree world," Watson said... READ MORE›
GREENLAND SEES EARLY ICE SHEET MELT
If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, which would take centuries, it could add six metres or more to the global sea level, Meier added... READ MORE›
ARTIST HAULS GREENLAND ICE TO PARIS AS A REMINDER OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The ice was pulled from Greenland's Nuuk Fjord and transported in refrigerated containers by sea to Denmark... READ MORE›
DENMARK "PUNISHES PEOPLE ALREADY HERE" TO DETER FUTURE ASYLUM SEEKERS
Refugee crisis Denmark punishes people already here to deter future asylum seekers... READ MORE›
GREENLAND IS LOSING 18 TRILLION KILOGRAMS MORE ICE A YEAR THAN SCIENTISTS THOUGHT
A new study says Greenland is losing about 7.6 per cent more ice annually than predicted, adding to global sea level rise... READ MORE›
DENIED GOOGLE STREET VIEW, DENMARK'S FAROE ISLANDS OPT FOR SHEEP VIEW
Located between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are a self-governing archipelago of Denmark... READ MORE›
WHY BRITAIN COULD QUIT E.U. AND WHY AMERICA CARES
Britain will vote on whether to leave the European Union on June 23 in a national referendum that could have profound implications for the U.S... READ MORE›
'SLEEPING GIANT' ANTARCTIC GLACIER IS MELTING FAST, MAY LIFT SEAS 2 METERS, STUDY SAYS
To date, scientists have mostly worried about the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets as dangerous drivers of sea level rise... READ MORE›
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WORLD HEAT SHATTERS RECORDS IN 2016 IN NEW SIGN OF CLIMATE CHANGE
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has sometimes called man-made climate change a hoax and threatened to cancel the Paris agreement... READ MORE›
THAW COULD RELEASE COLD WAR-ERA U.S. TOXIC WASTE BURIED UNDER GREENLAND'S ICE
Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps, scientists said on F... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT ERDOGAN: READY TO REINSTATE THE DEATH PENALTY
Turkey abolished capital punishment in 2004 under reforms aimed at obtaining European Union membership... READ MORE›
TURKEY COUP 'NO EXCUSE' TO ABANDON RULE OF LAW
He said the reintroduction of the death penalty would pose a problem with Turkey's ties with the European Union ... READ MORE›
EU WORRIED ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES TAKING BREXIT-LIKE LEAVE
- Marine Le Pen, National Front Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is mulling a second run for the office, has already intensified his own anti-Brussels rhetoric... READ MORE›
6 COMMENTS SO FAR
Three decades after Greenland exited what is now the European Union, some of its politicians and business leaders say the vast Arctic territory should consider rejoining... READ MORE›
HAS THE EU REALLY SAVED EUROPE FROM WAR?
Let's pretend that there was no European Union as it then wasn't when the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991... READ MORE›
DUTCH VOTERS REJECT EU-UKRAINE PACT AMID RISING EURO-SKEPTICISM
It looks like the Dutch people said NO to the European elite and NO to the treaty with Ukraine, tweeted popular anti-Islam, anti-EU lawmaker Geert Wilders... READ MORE›
SECRET EU PLAN TO DEPORT 80,000 AFGHANS
The paper, which was obtained by the Statewatch civil liberties website, says the EU's co-operation with Afghanistan so far has been difficult and uneven ... READ MORE›
COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY IN EUROPE KEY TO ADDRESSING REFUGEE CRISIS, SAYS SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER
The PM gives his opinion on 'Brexit' and if he believes Great Britain should leave the European Union... READ MORE›
NEW POLL SHOWS WIDENING SUPPORT FOR U.K. TO LEAVE THE EU
If they are included, 42 percent are in favor of leaving and 38 for remaining, with 20 percent yet to make up their mind... READ MORE›
REDLAND BAY MAN JOINS DIG FOR WORLD WAR II PLANE IN GREENLAND GLACIER
Redland Bay's Leigh Atkinson joined a small expedition digging up a World War II fighter plane buried deep inside a Greenland glacier... READ MORE›