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How to Access NASA’s Climate Data — And How It’s Powering the Fight Against Climate Change Pt. 1

How to Access NASA’s Climate Data — And How It’s Powering the Fight Against Climate Change Pt. 1

I can’t think of a more important dataset. Just today, I saw a headline like this: ‘Heat Waves Are Getting More Dangerous with Climate Change.’ You can’t say we haven’t been warned. In 1988, we saw headlines like this: ‘Global Warming Has Begun,...

France's Macron to visit Greenland on June 15

France's Macron to visit Greenland on June 15

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Greenland on June 15 and meet both Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, his presidency said in a statement on Saturday. The talks between the...

‘Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making a new project in Greenland

‘Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making a new project in Greenland

Russell glacier, at the edge of Greenland’s vast ice sheet, sounds as if it’s crying: moans emanate from deep within the slowly but inexorably melting ice. Andy Ferguson, one half of dance duo Bicep, walks around in its towering shadow recording...

World News | Greenland Has Message for Rest of the World: Come Visit

World News | Greenland Has Message for Rest of the World: Come Visit

Nuuk (Greenland), Jul 1 (AP) Greenland has a message for the rest of the world: We're waiting for you. “Come visit Greenland,” said Nukartaa Andreassen, who works for a water taxi company in the capital city, Nuuk. “Learn about it, learn about us....

Greenland stages ‘an elegant protest’ against Trump in Washington

Greenland stages ‘an elegant protest’ against Trump in Washington

A drum beats in the thick Washington heat. It’s 6.30pm on a weekday night, and guests are sweltering in the living room of the Danish ambassador’s residence near Georgetown. Musicians clad in brightly coloured capes, feathers and seal skin sway as...

Melting Glaciers Could Set Off Volcanoes in Chain Reaction, Scientists Sound Chilling Alarm

Melting Glaciers Could Set Off Volcanoes in Chain Reaction, Scientists Sound Chilling Alarm

Last Updated:July 08, 2025, 18:32 IST Ice cover delays volcanic eruptions, allowing magma to build up heat and pressure underground. When released, this leads to far more powerful and destructive explosions The most significant threat comes from...

Weather forced changes, but about 1,100 athletes competed in Special Olympics Arkansas Summer Games

Weather forced changes, but about 1,100 athletes competed in Special Olympics Arkansas Summer Games

This year’s Summer Games at Harding University brought about 1,100 athletes to Searcy, according to Irvin Humphrey, director of sports, training and competition for Special Olympics Arkansas. “Of course, it started off a little rough when the...

Kenya's refugee hunger crisis driven by global warming - Gore

Kenya's refugee hunger crisis driven by global warming - Gore

Former American Vice President Al Gore speaking during The Climate Reality Project Tour at Movenpick Hotel Westlands in Nairobi on Thursday 12/06/2025.(James Wanzala, Standard). Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore delivered a stark warning at the...

Extreme Heatwaves Underscore Climate Urgency

Extreme Heatwaves Underscore Climate Urgency

Over the past few weeks, heatwaves have hit several regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including parts of North America, Europe, and eastern Asia. RELATED: Glacier Collapse Buries Swiss Village That Voted Against Climate Change Policies As the...

Greenland plays football all day and night in 24-hour sunlight. Now they need someone to face

Greenland plays football all day and night in 24-hour sunlight. Now they need someone to face

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Greenland Wildlife Overpass may reconnect elk herds split since I-25 construction

Greenland Wildlife Overpass may reconnect elk herds split since I-25 construction

Frequent travelers on Interstate 25 to and from and Denver might have some questions about what appears to be an interchange with no connecting roads under construction just north of Monument. An interchange of sorts, the Greenland Wildlife...

Why Greenland Isn’t Chasing the Dream of Becoming a Mining Superpower

Why Greenland Isn’t Chasing the Dream of Becoming a Mining Superpower

Early in Donald Trump’s presidency, he announced his ambitions to acquire Greenland. In March, Trump said, “We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it.” As well as stating ambitions to counter Russia’s...

Trump’s New Favorite General

Trump’s New Favorite General

The moment was quickly overshadowed by other events—first an airline disaster in India, then the outbreak of war between Israel and Iran—but it was nevertheless noteworthy. On June 11, General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,...

What’s Driving the Republican Party to Climate Murder-Suicide?

What’s Driving the Republican Party to Climate Murder-Suicide?

In the annals of national suicide, the present dismantling of the American state will surely rank high. It may not reach the apogee attained by Russia in its final Tsarist days or by Louis XVI in the run-up to the French Revolution, but Great...

The birds of County Donegal — some doing well and others almost gone... with climate change likely to see them out

The birds of County Donegal — some doing well and others almost gone... with climate change likely to see them out

Donegal has two important mountainous areas, in the north west highlands and the Blue Stack Mountains, and two other significant areas of high ground — central Inishowen in the north-east, and the south-west promontory. These are all based on...

Arctic Sea Ice reaches a Historic Low for late June, with Winter Impacts expected if the Weather Pattern persists

Arctic Sea Ice reaches a Historic Low for late June, with Winter Impacts expected if the Weather Pattern persists

The Arctic Sea Ice melt season is in full swing, and we are currently at historically low levels for this time of year. The weather forecasts indicate that the trend could continue with sea ice extent reaching its lowest point on record in...

‘A cascade can be more positive’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis

‘A cascade can be more positive’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis

5-Tim-B Composite: TT/Shutterstock/Guardian Design Timothy Lenton is a professor of climate change and Earth system science at the University of Exeter. He started working on tipping points in the 1990s, making him one of the first scientists in...

Regional Ban on Scrubber Wash Among Environmental Steps Adopted by OSPAR

Regional Ban on Scrubber Wash Among Environmental Steps Adopted by OSPAR

Representatives from 16 countries meeting in Virgo, Spain, announced today, June 27, that they had adopted the first regional ban on the discharge of scrubber wash water among a series of new environmental actions. NGOs hailed the action, which...

SAS returns to Greenland after 20-year hiatus with new route to Nuuk

SAS returns to Greenland after 20-year hiatus with new route to Nuuk

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has relaunched direct flights between Copenhagen and Nuuk, reconnecting Greenland to mainland Europe by air for the first time in over two decades. The inaugural flight departed today, marking the beginning of a new...

Water and ice may reveal where rare earth elements are hiding

Water and ice may reveal where rare earth elements are hiding

We hear about minerals all the time. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and rare earth elements appear in the news almost every week. These minerals power phones, electric cars, and military equipment. Countries want them, companies want them, and...

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