Yet while Greenland may be sitting on mineral riches, any "gold rush" continues to be slow to materialise. The economy, which has an annual GDP of just over $3bn (£2.4bn), is still driven by the ...
GPS: Using GNET's 61 GPS stations on the Greenlandic mountains, all the way around Greenland, researchers can monitor how much the mountains rise. This can be converted to how much of the ice ...
Because of Greenland's mountains of ice, it also changes patterns in the jet stream, which brings storms across the globe and dictates daily weather. Often, especially in winter, a blocking system ...
A small team comprised of Steve Bradshaw, Dave Glass, Clinton Marteningo and Andrew Porter have established a series of new rock climbs in Greenland. Remember Greenland Big Walls, that exciting trip ...
Full of minerals' Greenland currently has only one active commercial mine — White Mountain —located north of the capital, Nuuk, and gets its stark, monochrome color from anorthosite rock ...
Climbers Nico and Olivier Favresse, Sean Villanueva and Ben Ditto are preparing for three month climbing trip to Greenland to explore huge virgin big walls. Belgians Nicolas Favresse, Olivier Favresse ...
and basalt mountains, will open Greenland up to the world. However, officials are also wary of getting the right balance between tourism growth and the well-being of their established communities ...
Jagged grey peaks suddenly appear before us, as the motorboat navigates choppy coastal waters and dramatic fjords at Greenland's southern tip. "Those very high pointy mountains, it's basically a ...