Increasing active layer thickness in the North
Active layer thickness (ALT) in the Northern Hemisphere has in average increased 0.65 cm per from 2000 to 2018. This mean value...
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be6625
May 3, 20221 min read
"Ice-free Greenland" now in Greenlandic!
Thanks to Kuupik V. Kleist the Ice-free Greenland book is now translated and digitally available in Greenlandic, see here! Thank you,...
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be6625
Apr 28, 20221 min read
A warmer Greenland....
A new report presents 30 years of climatological data from 55 stations across Greenland. The assessment is based on data from 1991-2020...
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be6625
Apr 12, 20221 min read
Mining pollution in Greenland - a lesson learned
Søndergaard and Mosbech present a review of 50 years of environmental studies and monitoring of mining sites in Greenland. The review...
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be6625
Apr 11, 20221 min read
Drought is critical to farming in Greenland - maybe also 600 years ago
Norse settlers developed a farming-based society in South Greenland for more than 1000 years ago. However, the region was largely...
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be6625
Apr 11, 20221 min read
Reduced methane emissions in former permafrost soils
A new paper shows that ecosystem changes following permafrost thawing can lead to a10-fold decrease in methane emissions. This appears to...
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be6625
Aug 10, 20211 min read
Boreal and tundra biomes continue to be carbon dioxide sinks!
A new circumpolar synthesis paper shows that on average, both boreal and tundra biomes continue to act as carbon dioxide sinks! The study...
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be6625
Jun 18, 20211 min read
The Breaking of the Drought
The title comes from a poem written by Frederick J. Atwood more than 100 years ago about the end of a drought and the arrival of rain....
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be6625
Jun 15, 20211 min read
Read about how peatlands efficiently can protect old soil carbon
Tanentzap and co-workers have this week demonstrated that peatlands can protect against downstream delivery and transformation of old...
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be6625
May 29, 20211 min read
Rivers running wild with mercury
A new study by Jon R. Hawkings and coworkers shows that meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet carry surprisingly high concentrations of...
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be6625
May 22, 20211 min read
Documented from space: plants reallocate nitrogen to roots during autumn
Storing nitrogen (N) in the root zone in the autumn is an important strategy for many arctic shrub species. A new study shows that the...
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be6625
May 20, 20211 min read
A new research project aims to identify Hg sources in Greenland - including from thawing permafrost
Congratulation to Jens Søndergaard for taking lead in the search for mercury (Hg) sources to the Arctic by using stable Hg isotopes. An...
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be6625
May 16, 20211 min read
Spring time: sea ice is critical for the greening of the ice-free part of Greenland
Southern part of Disko Bay is almost ice-free now, follow Last year Agata Buchwal from Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam...
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be6625
May 13, 20211 min read
Increasing mercury (Hg) levels in seabird eggs in North Greenland
Hg levels in the arctic environment have substantially increased over the past decades. This includes also seabird eggs (see a recent...
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May 6, 20211 min read
Amazing 1 mill old plant fossils under the Greenlandic Ice sheet
Andrew J. Christ from University of Vermont and co-workers have described well-preserved fossil plants in the sediment at the bottom of...
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Bo Elberling
Apr 6, 20211 min read
A second revised edition of the ice-free Greenland is soon coming!
You can read and explore the pictures from the book here or buy it in a bookshop close to you after May 10.
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Bo Elberling
Apr 1, 20211 min read
"The Ice-free Greenland" second edition is out today!
The book reveals a multitude of new results about changes within the ice-free part of Greenland. This includes permafrost and landscape...
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