In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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The artificial island of Lynetteholm is meant to protect the Danish capital from floods and provide housing – but critics accuse the project of greenwashing
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More than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark were ordered to close over fears of a Covid mutation – two years on, most will never reopen
7 votes -
Copenhagen's failure to meet its 2025 net zero target casts doubt on other major climate plans – pledges to cease contributing to climate change demand greater scrutiny
6 votes -
Baltic Pipe pipeline between Norway and Poland received its first direct deliveries of Norwegian gas – Danish terminal started operations following delays
6 votes -
Operator of Nord Stream 2 confirmed that a leak in the pipeline has been detected southeast of the Danish island Bornholm in the Baltic Sea
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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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Norway-Poland gas pipeline opens in key move to cut dependency on Russia – could be at full capacity a month early due to good progress on work in Denmark
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Denmark to allow significantly reduced mink production – limits on the number of people allowed to visit farms
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Denmark became the first central government of a developed country to propose ‘loss and damage’ funding to poorer countries for climate breakdown
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Meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production – which further warms the planet
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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Alex Honnold just led the first ascent of one of Earth's tallest Arctic sea cliffs, gathering crucial climate data along the way
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock signed a deal with Denmark to boost investment in hydro and wind power
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Instead of a field, hundreds of Danish growers now share patches of the ocean, growing mussels, sea kelp and more
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Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change, but it could also become ground zero for sourcing the metals needed to power the solution to the crisis
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Greenland ice sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week – eighteen billion tons of water in just three days
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
6 votes -
Danish farmers turn their backs on mink after Covid mutation cull – just a handful of mink breeders express an interest in re-entering fur industry
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Greenland weighs up economy versus climate crisis – as the island eyes tourism and mining it is also mindful of controlling the cost
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The construction of two energy islands off the coast of Denmark is being sped up to help wean the country off Russian fossil fuels
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Wind turbine maker Vestas posted a deep first-quarter loss and slashed its 2022 margin forecast due to the war in Ukraine and writedowns in its offshore business
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Denmark wants to phase out natural gas entirely and will quadruple the production of solar and onshore wind energy by 2030
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Denmark has authorised the construction of a new pipeline between Norway and Poland to reduce Warsaw's dependence on Russian gas
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The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland
4 votes -
Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
12 votes -
Denmark risks falling short of its 2030 climate targets unless it builds far more wind and solar farms and overcomes bureaucracy and local resistance to turbines
5 votes -
Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
11 votes -
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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The mystery of Denmark's vanishing wolf pack – are hunters to blame?
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End of wind power waste? Vestas unveils blade recycling technology.
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The greenest countries in the world – Denmark places first out of 180 countries analysed by Yale University
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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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Pollution fears over mink buried after Covid culling in Denmark – signs of pollution detected at burial sites but no water contamination
9 votes -
Arctic island finds green power can be a curse – Greenland's rare-earth elements are attracting superpowers riding a green revolution
11 votes -
Denmark is far from reaching its ambitious target for carbon emission reductions by 2030, the country's climate watchdog said in its annual review of climate policies
6 votes -
Denmark's government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial 'energy island' which is to be built 80km offshore
9 votes -
Denmark will dig up millions of dead mink after a hasty cull and burial intended to stamp out a coronavirus mutation ended with a new contamination risk
20 votes -
The Danish climate minister closing down the oil industry – Dan Jørgensen has agreed the world's most ambitious climate goal with a promise to cut 70% of emissions by 2030
8 votes -
Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea – decision is part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050
6 votes -
Following a two-year-long hiatus, an initiative by Copenhagen Municipality allowing citizens to get trees for free, has returned
7 votes