Tag archives for Greenland
LEONARDO’S BRIDGE: Part 3. “Vebjørn Sand and Variations on a Theme by Leonardo”
Posted by Bulent Atalay of Author, National Geographic Books; author, Smithsonian Books; Prof. UMW, Adj Prof UVA. on February 3, 2013 
Vebjørn Sand is a contemporary Norwegian artist, who divides his time between the United States and Norway. In 1996, in viewing a special exhibition of drawings and replicas of Leonardo’s inventions, Mr. Sand became transfixed by the shear beauty and modernity of a bridge the Renaissance master had sketched in a notebook — a bridge…
Quantum Correlations: Chasing Ice Review: Prepare for “Glacier-Less National Park”
Posted by alevine on December 15, 2012 By Alaina G. Levine Like Ice? Recognize its importance to the health of the planet and the very existence of humankind? Then prepare to be horrified and generally freaked-out by a new documentary that shows in shocking detail how fast our glaciers are retreating, melting and disappearing. It’s history in the making, says James Balog,…
NG Weekend: Bonobo Handshake
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 5, 2010 This week on National Geographic Weekend radio, host Boyd Matson speaks with guests about bonobos, Mars rovers, the National Geographic Bee, New Guinea wildlife, elephants, Greenland, growing up Maasai, and the mysterious Red Sea rooster. Hour 1 When Vanessa Woods fell in love with a primate researcher, she soon found herself on a plane to…
Posted by By Daniel Grossman from Copenhagen Hans Meltofte–spry and with a carefully trimmed mustache and beard–chooses his words with care, as scientists do when imparting their research. It surprised me, therefore, that this eminent ornithologist told me in Copenhagen this week that he had found recent changes in northeast Greenland, “scary.” Meltofte founded an ecological research…
More than a mile of ice core was pulled from the Greenland ice sheet by scientists this summer, setting a new record for single-season deep ice-core drilling. The researchers, from 14 countries and led by the University of Copenhagen, are on a quest to recover ice formed 120,000 years ago, the last time our planet…
Photo by Martin Hartley “Not really a great moment for us,” is how Rob Gauntlett (in the photo on the right) described his fall through sea ice into the Arctic Ocean. It was one of a number of scrapes with death that he and James Hooper, British teenagers fresh out of school, encountered on a…
