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What's a Whopper Virgin?
Nuuk :: Greenland | about 16 hours ago | Technology News
Source: The Motley Fool
has never had a problem taking chances in its marketing campaigns. However, its new Whopper Virgins campaign may have bitten more than the company can chew. Over the next few weeks, you'll be seeing ads that feature Burger King taste...
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Nunavut rejects call to curb polar bear hunt
Nuuk :: Greenland | 29 days ago | Technology News
Source: The Globe and Mail
From Thursday's Globe and Mail November 6, 2008 at 4:42 AM EST Nunavut has decided to leave unchanged the number of polar bears it allows to be killed each year in one of the largest areas of the territory, rejecting...
3 news stories / 2 blog posts / 24 images / 14 videos / 0 voices
Danish doubts over Greenland vote
Nuuk :: Greenland | 8 days ago | Business News
Source: BBC
Danish politicians say Greenland is still years away from true autonomy, despite its vote for greater self-rule. In a referendum on Tuesday, 75.5% of voters in Greenland backed a plan to increase their autonomy from Denmark, the former colonial power....
3 news stories / 7 blog posts / 14 images / 9 videos / 0 voices
Greenland vote favors independence
Nuuk :: Greenland | 9 days ago | Technology News
Source: International Herald Tribune
In a referendum on greater autonomy leading to eventual independence, the people of Greenland, the world's biggest island, voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday in favor of loosening their 300-year-old ties to Denmark, final results showed on Wednesday. Hans Jakob Helms, a political...
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Greenlanders vote on expanding autonomy
Nuuk :: Greenland | 10 days ago | Political News
Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
In the gloom of the polar night, Greenlanders voted Tuesday on increasing their autonomy from Denmark and sharing potential oil wealth with the former colonial power. A "yes" vote on the non-binding referendum would be a key step toward independence...
7 news stories / 8 blog posts / 21 images / 6 videos / 0 voices
2 °C rise could spark meltdown
Nuuk :: Greenland | 7 days ago | Technology News
Source: News 24
A less than 2 °C rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice, the WWF warned in a new study released on Thursday. "Scientists now suggest that even...
4 news stories / 1 blog post / 17 images / 20 videos / 0 voices
Greenland votes on loosening ties with Denmark
Nuuk :: Greenland | 9 days ago | Technology News
Source: CNN
Greenland won limited home rule in 1979, but Copenhagen continues to run the island's defense and foreign policy. The island is heavily dependent on fishing and subsidies from the Danish government, but retreating Arctic ice may make it more feasible...
3 news stories / 0 blog posts / 3 images / 14 videos / 0 voices
Science of Migrating Rubber Duckies
Nuuk :: Greenland | 21 days ago | Technology News
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
As Dr. Behar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory soon discovered, though, there isn't much money for global warming experiments in Greenland. Unfazed, he thought of one device that might survive such extremes at a cost his field expedition could readily...
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New Scientist: Concealed floods drive flow of Antarctic ice
Nuuk :: Greenland | 18 days ago | Political News
Source: Androscoggin News
A hidden network of glacial lakes far below the Antarctic surface regulates the motion of the continent's ice rivers, a study has found. When the subglacial lakes overflow, the ice above accelerates towards the ocean. "It's like putting in a...
2 news stories / 6 blog posts / 10 images / 12 videos / 0 voices
Melting ice now main driver of rising sea levels: study
Nuuk :: Greenland | 16 days ago | Technology News
Source: Khaleej Times
The rate at which the global ocean water mark rises could have a devastating impact on hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying areas around the world. Earlier research had shown that sea levels crept up and average of...
2 news stories / 2 blog posts / 14 images / 19 videos / 0 voices
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