Greenland

NASA's next rover target after Mars? Greenland

2013-05-03 14:39:00

NASA is sending a rover to a remote frontier on harsh terrain that's unfriendly to humans. But it won't be to the moon or Mars -- it's headed for Greenland.� From May 3 to June 8, the Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research will...

Overseas smartphone fees can be a horror story

2013-04-28 00:00:00

You know the zombies that pop back to life even after you stab them with a pitchfork? It's the same with smartphones. That's the bitter lesson I learned after returning home from Greenland and getting a $1,106 bill from Sprint for international data...

Arctic breaks records for loss of snow and ice

2012-12-05 14:59:00

A fast-changing Arctic broke records for loss of sea ice and spring snow cover this year, as well as summertime melt of the Greenland ice sheet, federal scientists reported Wednesday. “The Arctic is an extremely sensitive part of the world,”...

Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty

2012-12-06 13:53:00

Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line explanation for the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it was more than a generic fear of black helicopters (or black wheelchairs) that...

Ice sheet melting accounts for 20% of sea level rise since 1992

2012-11-29 16:20:00

The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the last 20 years, shrinking three times as much as in the 1990s and contributing substantially to sea level rise, according to a comprehensive new study of ice sheet loss conducted by...

In L.A. mayor's race, an early poll favors Garcetti, but ....

2012-12-03 11:39:00

The mayoral campaign of Eric Garcetti used a new poll Monday to tout its candidate's early strength, while acknowledging that there are miles to go before Los Angeles elects its next mayor. Bill Carrick, the Garcetti campaign's chief strategist, said...

Letters: A climate for solar

2012-11-27 00:00:00

Re "Power plant hosts' sunny hopes darken," Nov. 25 I hope that after reading the front-page story on massive solar energy projects in California's deserts — which failed to mention climate change once — readers perused the Op-Ed pages for...

Stop the presses! A good-news story found in L.A.

2012-11-26 12:54:00

Tired of reading about all the terrible things in the world? Then this is your lucky day. Because I have a good-news story for you.� It’s about wood. OK, I’ll grant you, that’s not on the order of “Cure discovered for cancer&...

Loss of Greenland ice could become irreversible, scientists say

2012-03-12 16:40:26

Coming Sunday: To Live and Write in L.A.

2012-04-20 21:35:59

Willi Dansgaard dies at 88; scientist who recognized climate record in ice cap

2011-02-07 00:00:00

Willi Dansgaard, a Danish paleoclimatologist who was the first to recognize that the Earth's climatic history was stored in the Greenland ice cap, died Jan. 8 in Copenhagen, according to the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. He was 88....

65 nations compete for best foreign film at the Oscars

2010-10-13 16:33:22

A prototype of NASA's GROVER, minus its solar panels, was tested in January 2012 at a ski resort in Idaho. The rover is being taken to Greenland to study the ice sheet there.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Ilulissat, Greenland was listed in 2004 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because the small town is next to the most active glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. In winter and summer, giant icebergs float in Disko Bay.

2013-04-10 10:30:05

To get to Greenland, you fly to Reykjavik, Iceland, from the United States then in a Dash 8 37-seat plane another three hours to Ilulissat.

2013-03-04 00:00:00