Arctic News

An earthquake with a magnitude of M 4.5 on the Richter scale hit the seafloor 204 km East of Nord, Greenland, on May 8, 2017 at 04:48:53 (U...

During the past decade from December 2004 to present, no less than 18 great (Mw ≥ 8.0) earthquakes occurred globally (~1.8 per year), compar...

Prominence of earthquakes in North America and around Greenland has prompted a team of researchers led by Arctic-news blog editor Sam Cara...

Researcher Jennifer Hynes recently gave a frightening presentation about the situation in the Arctic and the odds that things will rapidly...

[ soucre:  NOAA image  - click to enlarge] A major earthquake hit the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, on June 23, 2014. The earthquake occur...

Earthquakes in the Arctic Ocean indications of imminent catastrophic methane eruptions? 1. Methane over Greenland The image below sho...

The image below shows a lot of methane over deeper parts of oceans, in particular the Arctic Ocean. [ click on image to enlarge ] Let&#...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the Summary for Policymakers of Working Group I. Sadly, the docume...

Methane hydrates can become destabilized due to changes in temperature or pressure, as a result of earthquakes and shockwaves accompanying ...

The NASA image below gives an impression of the strength of hurricane Sandy, as it approached the U.S. coast on October 28, 2012.  Ima...