TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Jump to the full entry & travel map Greenland, Greenland 7:35 (London time) Halfway to Greenland, and nothing but water below. That's the first time this has happened to me! Say praise to Benuli!
gtmcknight.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eating Polar Bears Is Okay in Greenland - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Written by Timothy B. Hurst Two low-flying unmanned aircraft are cruising over Greenland this month to closely observe the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its potential contribution to global sea level rise in the coming century. The flights will help scientists determine whether the ice sheet’s melt rate will accelerate in the future. The drones are flying out of Ilulissat, half...
Grains of Sand (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Good photos from Greenland and Iceland by Nathan Myrhvold. For example this one of a storm over a fjord (large verion here ).
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The sun did not set, the temperature never climbed above freezing and Craig Beals ate calorie-laden gourmet meals while losing weight. Such is life atop the summit of Greenland's two-mile-thick ice cap. ...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
A researcher who grew up in Squirrel Hill is part of a team exploring the Greenland ice sheet.
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MSNBC.com: Space News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday, August 1 is a red-letter day for eclipse enthusiasts. On that date, the sun will be partially eclipsed over an immense area that includes western and central Asia, parts of northern and central Europe, all of Greenland and even a small slice of northeastern North America.
Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Arrives at meeting in motorcade, suggests attendees ride bicyclesBy Christina Miller© 2008 WorldNetDaily A complete meltdown of the North Pole ice cap resulting in environmental catastrophes for Greenland and other northern nations, generating a flood of "climate refugees." The latest horror flick storyline? No. Al Gore's latest forecast. Gore has declared that because of the potentially horrifying...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 55 minutes ago
We have now spent 2 nights in Stallvik a small town on a beautiful fjord in Norway. According to the relatives if we were to go directly west from here we would run into Greenland We are really up there It is strange in the summer here it never gets dark at night and it is an odd feeling to see daylight at midnight. It was quite the adventure getting to Stallvik though. We spent ALL DAY
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SHAREMYART (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, this Tuesday (010808) a SOLAR ECLIPSE is swinging it's way upon us. The path of totality will commence in Arctic Canada and travel across Greenland, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and conclude in China. Totality will be witnessed by many fortunate indigenous people living in it's shadow and many, many travellers from around the globe, who are placing their ambitions in the oh~so random cosmos....
I, Hans. (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Project Syndicate: But psychology also matters in speculative markets, and perhaps that image of the Greenland ice disappearing makes it seem all too plausible that everything else– land, water, even fresh air – is running out too. Disappearing Greenland ice...
kottke (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Nathan Myhrvold, billionaire polymath, recently wrote a series of three posts for the Freakonomics blog about his trips to Iceland and Greenland . I'd like to say that global warming was evident during my visit, but that is not really the case. Indeed, [my guide] Salik tells me that he and most Greenlanders are pretty skeptical about it. The local fishing industry used to be based on...
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
On 1st August 2008 there will be a total eclipse of the Sun, visible from Canada, northern Greenland, Svalbard, the Barents Sea, Russia, Mongolia and China. From the whole of the British Isles observers will see a partial solar eclipse, with between 1/10th and 1/3rd of the Sun obscured by the Moon.
