Greenland Glaciers Are Slowing Down, Not Accelerating
	There is a common belief, largely fueled by multiple studies related to climate change and global warming, that Greenland's glaciers are slipping towards the ocean at even faster rates than previously thought. A newly published paper however shows that for the last 17 years or so, Greenland's ice sheet has been actually slowing down its speeding motion towards the water, by as much as 10 percent. Most of the previous ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Global Warming Makes Caribou Sterile
	Polar bears are highly emblematic in signaling the impact of global warming. The narwhal is the species most vulnerable to global warming. Yet, not only Arctic marine mammals are affected by global warming: western Greenland's caribou experiences a mismatched migration caused by warming, that translates in less and weaker calves, with decreased chances of survival, due to less food available, as revealed by a new research to be publis ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NASA Satellites Prove it: Warmer Air Is Speeding Up Ice Loss in Greenland
	NASA confirms it: the surface temperature of Greenland's ice sheet is going up, fueled by warming air, causing a melt at the surface of and throughout the mass of the ice cap. A total melting of the Greenland ice would raise sea level by about 23 ft (7.8 m). This may not happen, but Greenland has been adding 2 mm to the sea level annually, starting with the end of the 20th century. The new research published in the 'Journal of Gl ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paradoxes of Global Warming: Greenland is Going Up!
	If the ocean levels rose by 13 cm (5 in) only between 1940 and 1980, before the current speeding of the global warming, a phenomenon that prolonged the day on Earth by 0.001 second, you can imagine what happened in the last three decades and what will follow!... Tuvalu is already a flooded nation. Paradoxically (or not), other islands have a different faith: Greenland is actually going upwards, rising up with 4 cm (1.6 in) annually, al ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Global Warming Is Turning Greenland Really Green!
	Vikings named this land Greenland only for 'promotional' goals, as it was mostly a frozen land. Rapid thawing on the world's biggest island has started to improve conditions for agriculture, commercial fishing, mining and oil exploration. Arctic temperatures experience the most dramatic rise with the global warming. "The warmer climate will have a definite positive effect on Greenland's economic possibilities an ... [read more >>]
	19 October 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Indeed, Greenland Was Once Green
	Today's Greenland is an icy polar desert; just on the southern coast, there is some tundra vegetation, with its giants represented by dwarf birch and willows that do not grow taller than 1-2 ft (0.3-0.6 m). The name "Greenland" was given by the first Viking explorers just to attract colonists to the area. Wood drifted by sea from Labrador peninsula also made them believe there were forests nearby. But now ancient DNA recover ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Greenland Ice Melting Will Raise by 7 m (23 ft) the Sea Levels
	Sea levels have risen 10 cm (4 inch) from the beginning of the industrial era, when people started to dump huge amounts of carbon dioxide resulted from the burning of the fossil fuels into the atmosphere. But what has occurred till now is nothing compared to what is going to happen if only the Greenland's ice sheet melts. In this case, the rise will be of 7 m (23.3 ft). And imagine that this is just 9 % of the total ... [read more >>]
	02 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did The Vikings Discover America?
	Who discovered America? When Columbus returned from the Antilles in 1493, he was not the first European to have stepped on the New World. It seems that 500 years before, a group of blond Scandinavians had done it. It happened during the Viking era, when these sailors and warriors were roaming northern Africa, eastern Europe and the Middle East. In 986, Bjarni Herjolfsson, experimented navigator and adventurer, left Norway to reach ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2007, 12:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia