Lands that hold one spellbound.
9781552382400 Lands that hold one spellbound. Apollonio, Spencer. Univ. of Calgary Press 2008 322 pages $34.95 Paperback Northern lights series G760 The history of East Greenland and its indigenous...

The mighty ducks: rubber quackers monitor a melting glacier.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scientists in Greenland are going ducky over their latest experiment. They're using toy ducks to study ice! Greenland is an island near the North Pole. The scientists recently set loose 90 rubber ducks in the Jakobshavn (yah-cuhb-SAH-ven) Glacier on the west coast of...

The mighty ducks.
Scientists in Greenland are going ducky over their latest experiment. They're using toy ducks to study ice! Greenland is a large island in Europe. It is near the North Pole. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The scientists recently set loose 90 rubber ducks in the Jakobshavn (yah-cuhb-SAH-ven) Glacier...

Paul Rose.
Paul Rose 57, expedition leader, polar guide, professional diver and instructor, mountaineer, engineer and television presenter, was base commander of the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station for ten years and is a former vice president of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). He has led a crossing of...

Intelligroup Attains SAP Business All in One Status in Denmark Solution Certified by SAP for Discrete Manufacturing Vertical.
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligroup announced today that it has achieved SAP Business All in One status in Denmark. SAP Business All in One status will enable Intelligroup to resell SAP software in Denmark in addition to implementing SAP software for customers in the region. The SAP...

A grand ice canyon.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A GRAND ICE CANYON--Scientists Mark Behn (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Ian Joughin (University of Washington) peer down the cliff of a deep channel cut through the Greenland Ice Sheet by a river of water--much the way the Colorado River created the Grand Canyon. Rivers...

Supreme Court of Denmark rejects claim by Thule Tribe that 1951 U.S.-Danish agreement for U.S. Airbase in Thule, Greenland that limited its hunting grounds and led to relocation of Tribe contravened the Danish constitution.
The U.S. established an airbase in Thule, Greenland (then a Danish colony) in 1951 near the Uummannaq settlement of about 100 polar Eskimos. The airbase limited their hunting grounds. Two years later, the Danish government relocated the Eskimo settlement of 132 people and its facilities to Qaanaaq, about 90...

Ross's gulls (Rhodostethia rosea) breeding in Greenland: a review, with special emphasis on records from 1979 to 2007.
ABSTRACT. This review summarizes breeding records of Ross's gull in Greenland with special emphasis on the period between 1979 and 2007. The review comprises both previously published records (including some published only in Danish) and unpublished reports and breeding records from 2004 and 2006. The majority of the Greenland...

Zackenberg--an Arctic Pearl in the North East Greenland National Park.
ZACKENBERG--AN ARCTIC PEARL IN THE NORTH EAST GREENLAND NATIONAL PARK. By THOMAS BJORNEBOE BERG. Humlebaek, Denmark: Rhodos Science and Art Publishers, 2008. ISBN 87-7245-967-0. 232 p., 3 maps, 128 colour and 31 b&w illus. Hardbound. ~US$60.00 + postage. Captured in a diary of expressive wording and brilliant...

Crack! A lake atop the Greenland Ice Sheet disappears!
In late July 2006, a 2.2-square-mile lake atop the Greenland Ice Sheet sprung a leak. Like a draining bathtub, the entire lake emptied from the bottom, sending water through a crack that reached the base of the ice sheet 3,215 feet below. Most of the 11.6 billion gallons of...