The Latest Breaking News from Greenland

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Forecasters fear another cold snap is on its way from Greenland with weather maps showing the potential for two inches of snow to fall per hour early next month.

The weather pattern is uncannily similar to the winter of 2009-10, which produced Mid-Atlantic blizzards.

At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath the mouth of a fjord has lain frozen and undisturbed for 2 million years.

Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.

The microscopic fragments, found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland, are twice the age of the previous oldest DNA.

The dramatic vanishing of polar ice sheets will cause catastrophic sea level rise that will threaten cities, according to a major new study

"Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is one of several factor that contributes to global sea level rise"

Glacier expert Dr Donald Slater says Ireland will be affected as melting glaciers contribute to sea level rises