What was it that happened with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the role that you had to play, which really is the genesis of Citizens. Van Saun: So, I had been at Bank of New York, and we merged with Mellon, so that was a nice 11-year run in my career. I wasn’t going to ...
The higher its concentration, the greater the warming - and, more important still, the greater the chance of triggering something grave and irreversible: rising sea levels due to the melting of Greenland's icecap; runaway release of methane in the tundra. Some technical advances - information ...
While in space, they were able to peer back down to Earth and out to the broader void, while experiencing weightlessness. Back within 11 minutes The whole trip clocked in 10 minutes and 21 seconds, according to Blue Origin. Liftoff happened 9:30 a.m. EDT from Blue Origin’s launch site...
US President Harry Truman attempted to purchase Greenland from Denmark in 1946.Public Domain/National Archives and Records Administration[5] One sovereign nation buying territory from another may seem strange today, but there are many instances where this has happ...
Air Force B-52 bomber carrying them crashed near Greenland. A cabin fire forced the crew to abandon the aircraft before they could make an emergency landing at Thule Air Base. Six crew members ejected safely, but one who did not have an ejection seat was killed while trying to bail out....
Of the 7.2 billion humans on today’s Earth, 56,483 of them are living out their lives in Greenland. That’s less than the population of East Village in Manhattan, making Greenland the least densely populated country on Earth (one person for every 15 square miles). Mongolia is the third...
Nationally some have dubbed collective national protests on April 19, 2025, as “No Kings Day, Part II.” The reasons for unrest today have a striking similarity to what happened two and a half centuries ago, as British forces gathered in Massachusetts to confront increasingly rebellious colonial...
these big cats did not grow in numbers that much. But that trend changed in 2010. For the first time, between 2010 and 2022, tiger numbers nearly doubled, from ~1700 to over 3600. This has happened despite a rise in India's human population and a decline in forest area. How did Ind...
What happened to the ice shelf in Ilulissat? Ilulissat: Ilulissat is a town and an ice fjord on the coast of western Greenland. It is most notable for containing the Jakobshavn Glacier, which is one of the most well-known glaciers in Greenland. It is both a major tourist attraction (it...
These creatures might be able to weather a relatively short ice-free window, hunkered down in either the last ice area or other places set aside to preserve biodiversity. When the ice returned, they could spread out again to repopulate the Arctic. That has almost certainly happened during ...