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An enhanced approach to capturing changes on the Earth's surface via satellite could provide a more accurate account of how ice sheets, river basins and other geographic areas are changing as a result of natural and human factors. In a first application, the technique revealed sharper-than-ever details about Greenland's massive ice sheet, including that the rate at which it is melting might be accelerating more slowly than predicted. Princeton University researchers developed a...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online About 500 years ago, Greenland's Viking settlers, the Norse, disappeared suddenly and mysteriously. Many theories have been proposed to explain the disappearance, from natural disasters and climate change to the inability to adapt. A team of researchers from Aarhus University, the University of Copenhagen, the National Museum of Denmark and the University in Vancouver has dispelled the idea that the Vikings died out due to an...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A rapid response between global temperatures and ice volume/sea-level that could lead to sea-levels rising by over 3 feet have been revealed by a new study from the University of Southampton. Global ice-volume variability has been one of the main feedback mechanisms in climate change during the last few million years. This is because of the strong reflective properties of large ice sheets. Scientists reconstruct ice volume...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online There are almost as many global climate models as there are climate scientists. Even with all of these models, however, it's very difficult to pin down how warming temperatures globally will affect any specific region. A research team from The City College of New York and the University of Liege, Belgium, and supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), have made the "global local" using the output of three global models and...
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Buyer Group International, Inc. (OTC PK: BYRG) ("BYRG" or the "Company") today released a White Paper on Greenland's natural resources potential. The advisors at BYRG choose to do this to illustrate the enormous potential of investing in such areas as Greenland, given China's recent multi-billion dollar investments made in Greenland and China's expressions that Greenland is of major strategic importance to the country's long term viability...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Antibiotics play a critical role in modern medicine. We take them to fight diseases, we give them to our pets, our food animals, even our plants. But what happens to those antibiotics after they pass through our systems? How do they affect the rest of the world? That is the question researchers from the University of Gothenburg have been asking, specifically how do these antibiotics affect the bacteria in the ocean. The research team...
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Buyer Group International, Inc. (BYRG.PK) ("BYRG" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent dated August 1st, 2012, for a joint venture with certain equity partners and assigns of Caribou Greenland, Corp., whereby BYRG has the option to acquire up to a 40% interest in 360,000 acres near Isortoq, Greenland. "We are tremendously excited about the potential of Greenland. Not only do we feel that...
The high elevation flat surfaces characteristic of the Norwegian landscape are in geologically terms young, according to a paper in Nature Geoscience. In a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience, researchers from the University of Bergen (UiB) and ETH Zurich have demonstrated that ice sheets have extensively shaped the fjords of Norway for the last 2.8 million years. – However, the massive sediment record deposited offshore Norway during this period tells us a more complex...
John Neumann for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Sometime between 200 and 500 years ago, in the throes of a mini ice age, sea ice had become thick and stable enough for animal migration to occur between regions in far northern Europe. This sheet of ice gave arctic foxes a migration route to Iceland from previously unavailable landmasses, including present-day Russia, North America and Greenland. Scientists at Durham University reported findings highlighting the importance of sea...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The public is invited to a free lecture being held on Sept. 12 at the Library of Congress, Washington about NASA Scientist Lora Koenig's research at Earth's poles in extreme conditions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets contain 99 percent of the Earth's fresh-water ice, according to Koenig, a physical scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md....
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The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as the saddleback seal, is a true seal in the Phocidae family. It is native to northern areas of the Atlantic Ocean and to some areas of the Arctic Ocean. Its scientific name means "ice-lover from Greenland,” and it was previously classified within Phoca genus, although studies have shown that it is unique enough to be in a distinct genus. It holds two recognized subspecies, P. groenlandicus groenlandicus and P. groenlandicus oceanicus....
Baffin Bay, which is located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It’s connected to the Atlantic by Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. A narrower Nares Strait connects the Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The Baffin Bay is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is bordered by Baffin Island towards the west, Greenland towards the east, and Ellesmere Island towards the north. It is connected to the Atlantic through the Davis...
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus), also known as the musk ox, is native to the Arctic areas of Canada, United Sates, and Greenland. Populations have been introduced into Norway, Sweden, and Siberia, but these are small. There was a population in Antarctica, but it was wiped out due to hunting and climate change, which caused its habitat to decline. Despite this, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service introduced a new population onto Nunivak Island in Antarctica, as a means of supported...
Symbol: STGR8 Group: Lichen Family: Stereocaulaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Order Lecanorales Family Stereocaulaceae Genus Stereocaulon Hoffm. – snow lichen Species Stereocaulon groenlandicum (E. Dahl) Lamb – Greenland snow lichen
Symbol: SIGR8 Group: Monocot Family: Iridaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Forb/herb Native Status: GL N Distribution: SisyrinchiumgroenlandicumBöcher distribution:DEN(GL) Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class Liliopsida –...
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