By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Oct 20 (Reuters) On a windy August afternoon in 2017, Akitsinnguaq Ina Olsen was relaxing in the old harbor of Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, when a Chinese icebreaker...
By Eric Roston (Bloomberg) –As the summer melt season reaches its peak, the largest Arctic ice shelf has jettisoned a piece of ice twice the size of Manhattan. The Geological...
Located 207 km north of the Arctic Circle, on the northwest coast of the island of Greenland, Thule Air Base is the US military’s northernmost installation. Thule’s arctic environment includes icebergs...
(Reuters) – An iceberg the size of a hill has drifted close to a tiny village on the western coast of Greenland, causing fear that it could swamp the settlement...
Norwegian ship designer Havyard Design & Solutions has been awarded a contract to the two new cargo vessels for Greenland’s exclusive shipping company Royal Arctic Line. The vessels will be...
An Arctic Umiaq Line ferry has finally freed itself from an ice flow off Greenland’s southwest coast after spending several days beset by ice. The Greenland coastal ferry, MS Sarfaq...
COPENHAGEN, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Maersk Oil, a unit of Denmark’s A. P. Moller-Maersk, has postponed a decision on whether to drill for oil at a exploration licence off the...
On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the...
The M/V Vega Sagittarius sits high above the water after running aground last week near Nuuk, Greenland. The 11,811 dwt vessel, which is chartered by Royal Arctic Line, was enroute...
(Bloomberg) — Oil companies off Greenland’s shores may be basing risk assessments on outdated information as icebergs splinter the island’s coastline at an ever faster pace, scientists and environmentalists said....
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Cairn Energy PLC (CNE.LN) Tuesday shrugged off the disappointment of a $1.19 billion full-year loss, insisting that there were sufficient “transformational” opportunities in its oil exploration and development portfolio...
Statoil has acquired a 30.625% working interest in the Pitu licence in Baffin Bay. The license was awarded to Cairn Energy during the first Baffin Bay licensing round in December...
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