In 2019, scientist Steffen Olsen took a startling photo of huskies appearing to walk on water – photo quickly went viral as it revealed reality of Greenland's rapidly melting ice
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Five of six Greenlandic political parties support reconsidering fossil fuel ban, with only Inuit Ataqatigiit maintaining strong opposition
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Danish deposit system: 93% of bottles and cans are returned and of those, 99.7% recycled (translation in comment)
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Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11billion investor-state dispute settlement.
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Using 3D surface maps, scientists led by Durham University, found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth on Greenland's ice sheet over the five years between 2016 and 2021
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Riches thought to lie beneath Greenland have been coveted for more than a century – but how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference
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In 2023 the Danish city of Aarhus launched a three-year trial project to curb the number of disposable coffee cups – more than 700,000 were returned last year
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been released from prison in Greenland after Denmark rejected a Japanese request to extradite him
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Danish lawmakers have agreed to plant one billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into natural habitats over the next two decades
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Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, known for his decades-long fight against Japanese whaling, arrested in Greenland in July, has asked France's president for political asylum
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A seismic signal heard across the world last September for nine days has been traced back to a trapped tsunami triggered by a landslide in the remote fjords of Greenland
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Maelstrom under Greenland's glaciers could slow future sea level rise – pioneering mission into mysterious and violent world may reveal ‘speed bumps’ on the way to global coastal inundation
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Three Danish energy tech firms have opened the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, capable of producing 5,000 tons per year
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Danish wind power giant Ørsted delays major US offshore project – news follows scrapping of two other Atlantic windfarms and axing of hundreds of jobs as costs surge
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan in Greenland
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The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move beneath the waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic
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Danish insect farm sets sights on feeding Europe's livestock – Enorm intends to produce more than 10,000 tonnes of insect meal and oil a year
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Denmark will introduce a levy on farm emissions in what is set to be one of the world's first carbon taxes on agriculture
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Danish researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind farms far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood
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Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt by feeding on the snow algae which diminish ability of ice to reflect the sun
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New GPS-based method can measure daily ice loss in Greenland
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Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe – location, extent and strength of recent freshwater events suggest unusually warm and dry summer
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European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
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Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups
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A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark. Who pays to stop it?
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UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
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Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped in Skåne – travel chaos occurred amid plummeting winter temperatures across the Nordic countries
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Denmark, Finland and Panama aim to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit – that will take giving nature a boost
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Lars Aagaard, Danish climate minister, says farmers deserving most success on the European market should be those who emit the least carbon per tonne of food produced
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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Denmark is preparing to make a significant pledge toward a new climate disaster fund, breaking ranks with other developed countries
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Copenhagen is moving away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle
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The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there?
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Greenland's massive ice sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots climate targets – but even then quick action could stabilize it
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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change – one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse
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Buried under the ice
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Ørsted shares fall 25% after it reveals troubles in US business – £7bn wiped off value of world's largest offshore wind company over possible £1.8bn write-down
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To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world's most remote fjords in Greenland and Antarctica
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Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
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Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins
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When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
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Germany's MAN Energy Solutions installs world's largest seawater CO2 heat pump for district heating at the port of Esbjerg, Denmark
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Danish environmental campaigner Merijn Tinga has windsurfed up the Thames to return plastic bottles from the UK which he found in Sweden
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Viking Link joins UK and Denmark power grids for first time – 765km high-voltage cable joins Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Jutland in Denmark
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Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland's ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
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Denmark delays man-made energy island in North Sea due to high costs – more options for better and cheaper concept will be analyzed
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Denmark sets new record - month of June has been the most sunny since records began
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Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields
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The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
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