Dr. Koni Steffen is the director of University of Colorado at Boulders Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and a veteran researcher of Arctic climate. The following are excerpts from a Reuters interview with Dr. Steffen at his research camp in Greenland in which he discusses the accelerating melting of Greenlands ice cap and [...]

AASIAAT, Greenland – The ice cap is spectacular when the sun is shining, but you dont want to be there during a snow storm. We barely escaped one that would have confined us to our tents for at least two days, taking a helicopter back to Ilulissat early in the morning, just as a blizzard [...]

NUUK, Greenland – The taxis are Mercedes-Benzes. The local discotheque is called Manhattan. And Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End opened here two days earlier than in the United States. This is the modern face of Nuuk, the tiny capital of Greenland, which has 15,000 inhabitants and only a handful of traffic lights.
But for [...]

Copenhagen correspondent Gelu Sulugiuc and Reuters photographer Bob Strong ventured to Greenland to visit a team of scientists studying the melting of the ice sheet. The following was written at Swiss Camp, on the ice cap.
After a bumpy 35-kilometre snowmobile ride, we finally reach JAR-2 (Jakobshavn Ablation Region 2), where Dr. Koni Steffen of the University of Colorado at Boulder and [...]

Copenhagen correspondent Gelu Sulugiuc and Reuters photographer Bob Strong are in Greenland to visit a team of scientists studying the melting of the ice sheet. Gelu wrote the following when at Swiss Camp, on the Greenland ice cap.
Twenty-five minutes by helicopter from Ilulissat, we come upon the first interruption of the seemingly endless expanse of Greenland’s ice sheet — [...]

Copenhagen correspondent Gelu Sulugiuc and Reuters photographer Bob Strong are in Greenland to visit a team of scientists studying the melting of the ice sheet.  
ILULISSAT, Greenland – One can use any modern means of transportation in Greenland, from snowmobile to helicopter to plane. But nothing beats the dog sled at least when there is [...]

Copenhagen correspondent Gelu Sulugiuc and Reuters photographer Bob Strong are in Greenland to visit a team of scientists studying the melting of the ice sheet.
ILULISSAT, Greenland – Sitting on the rocks atop Greenland’s Suicide Cliff, from where old Inuit women used to hurl themselves into the icy waters below when they became a burden to their [...]

KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland - The town that is the gateway to Greenland doesn’t look particularly inviting at first sight. Touching down in a plane filled with scientists, journalists, tourists and locals returning from Copenhagen, we are greeted by a barren, harsh and unforgiving landscape dotted with drab cinder block buildings tiny-windowed to keep out the deep winter freeze.
Luckily, nobody comes here [...]