Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world's northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice
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For the first time on record precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland, roughly two miles above sea level, fell as rain and not snow
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Third-biggest ice loss for Greenland in a single day since 1950 – rapid melt followed warm air being trapped by a change in atmospheric circulation patterns
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Greenland stops oil and gas exploration – natural resources minister Naaja Nathanielsen said the environment and climatic impacts had been assessed as being too high
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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Building electronics that can survive under Greenland's ice sheet – meet the Cryoegg, designed to follow the melting going on beneath the ice sheet
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Arctic island finds green power can be a curse – Greenland's rare-earth elements are attracting superpowers riding a green revolution
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Growing number of unexpected arrivals in Arctic waters around Greenland – shrinking sea ice has fast-tracked a race among powers for control over resources and waterways
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
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UN weather agency calls a new record low temperature in the Northern Hemisphere – -69.6°C (-93°F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Klinck, Greenland
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A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf, Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, in north-east Greenland – ejected section covers about 110 square km
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Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
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The history of the Inuit peoples, the world's most extreme survivors
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Citizens in Greenland are voting on whether to keep a controversial statue of a Hans Egede, seen as a symbol of Danish colonialism
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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
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Police in Greenland have detained a man in connection with the vandalism of a statue of a Danish colonizer that was doused with red paint
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Greenland's Grand Canyon – UMass Amherst and the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Ice & Climate propose a new mechanism for how the megacanyon formed
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Air Greenland’s record-breaking eight hour turboprop flight
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Greenland wary of US plans for aid projects in its territory – politicians say expected announcement of $12m must not have conditions attached
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Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet – loss largely due to high pressure zone not taken into account by climate models
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Alcohol sales banned in Greenland capital during lockdown – move aims to cut violence against children during coronavirus confinement
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Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months – analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer
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Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s
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Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists say
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Underwater photographer Tobias Friedrich took a unique look at the underside of Greenland's icebergs
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Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate, and teenage boys are especially vulnerable
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s – scale and speed of loss much higher than predicted
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Trump administration hosting new Greenland talks with Denmark, focused on presence and investments
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
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How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2019
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Trump has defected to the autocrats
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Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale
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Trump says he wants to buy Greenland – but Denmark isn't selling
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Danish prime minister calls Trump's interest in buying Greenland 'absurd'
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Before and after pictures show Greenland's rapid ice melt from space
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Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice
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Heatwave threatens to accelerate ice melt in Greenland
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Scientists have identified more than fifty new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland ice sheet
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Greenland is falling apart: Since 1972, the giant island's ice sheet has lost eleven quadrillion pounds of water
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As more rain falls, Greenland is melting faster
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The young queer writer who became Greenland’s unlikely literary star
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Human-driven climate change is literally making Earth ‘wobble’
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Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony
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An eleven-million-ton iceberg threatens small village in Greenland
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Greenland villagers evacuated after iceberg comes to town
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