Ilulissat

Images Photo Gallery: Narsarsuaq & Eqi Glacier in Greenland Close to Rodebay and Ilulissat

Narsarsuaq is a town in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Today there is a thriving tourism industry in and around Narsarsuaq, whose attractions include a great diversity of wildlife, gemstones, tours to...

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Ilulissat icebergs

The Ilulissat glacier in Greenland produces around 20 billion tonnes worth of ice bergs each year, making it the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere. In this video we take a short trip trhough the Ilulissat...

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Greenland ice loss 'accelerating'

The Ilulissat glacier has retreated by approximately 15km over the past decade The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than in previous years and making an increasing contribution to sea level rise, a study has...

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The greening of Greenland

Disko Bay lay glinting with ice on the bright afternoon we sailed in. Bergs as big as buses floated among others the size of houses. Snow falls on the vast Greenland ice sheet – this is by far the world’s biggest island – and...

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Greenland is warming up

Disko Bay lay glinting with ice on the bright afternoon we sailed in. Bergs as big as buses floated among others the size of houses. Snow falls on the vast Greenland ice sheet – this is by far the world’s biggest island – and...

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Excerpt from Planet Ice

In Antarctic Bay, a southern minke whale circled our Zodiac raft, and I heard its grand, percussive exhalation, an octave lower than the lowest note of a pipe organ. As we waited for its next breath, we heard only the crackling...

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Glaciers in Motion - the Extreme Ice Survey

The Extreme Ice Survey has been capturing time-lapse photos of the flow and retreat of glaciers over weeks, months, and years. I recommend taking fifteen minutes to watch the survey lead, James Balog present some of the...

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Rejoice! Ice Free Arctic Summers within a decade!

Great news here! Oil companies are going to have a great opportunity to drill in the Arctic Sea Floor to find more fossil fuels , because the Arctic Circle will soon be Ice Free in the Summers - making it very cost effective...

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Climate Change: Whole Lot of Shaking Going On ...

Update: I will be inserting additional information about the new Earthquakes and Tsunamis that were triggered since Tuesday... In the recent climate change debate, some of our leaders, like Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, are still...

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Greenland icesheet could melt faster than thought: study (AFP)

AFP/File – An aerial view of the ice glacier of Ilulissat, Greenland taken in July 2009. The Greenland icesheet … PARIS (AFP) – The Greenland icesheet responded to global warming over the past 10,000 years more quickly than...

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