Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon ...

An estimated 7,500 of Greenland lakes turned brown, began emitting carbon, and suffered a decline in water quality.

Fulbright Distinguished Arctic Scholar and University of Maine Climate Change Institute Associate Director Jasmine Saros, ...

West Greenland's lakes have undergone an alarming change. Within just a couple of years, thousands of its great blue lakes ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

Jasmine Saros has visited West Greenland every summer since 2011. Saros, a professor of lake ecology at the University of ...

Deposits are located at Isua in southern West Greenland, at Itilliarsuk in central West Greenland, and in North West ...

West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents with drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Yet after two months of record heat and precipitation ...

According to a common variation of this argument, gaining a greater degree of control over Greenland — either by buying it, ...

Following two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in West Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality in less than a year.