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Greenfield tornado
The Greenfield tornado was a violent EF4 tornado that struck Greenfield, Iowa, on May 21, 2024, killing five people, injuring at least 35, and destroying more than 100 homes.
Greenfield, Iowa
Greenfield, Iowa, is the county seat of Adair County, founded 1854-1856 on a Lancaster-style town square. Known for the 1896 E.E. Warren Opera House, restored as the Warren Cultural Center in 2012, and as the filming site of Norman Lear's Cold Turkey.
Greengage
Greengage: a small, round, greenish-yellow sweet plum of Prunus domestica, also called Reine Claude after Queen Claude of France; named in English after Sir William Gage, who imported trees from France around 1725.
GreenGreen
GREENGREEN is the second EP by K-pop boy band CORTIS (BIGHIT MUSIC), released May 4, 2026; six tracks, 15:59, led by the single REDRED, with over 2 million preorders and an August 2026 extended edition. Distinct from Yuzu's 2019 single and the 2001 visual novel.
Greenhills Coal Mine
Greenhills is an open-pit metallurgical coal mine near Elkford in the Elk Valley of southeastern British Columbia, producing about 6 Mt of steelmaking coal a year.
Greenhouse
A greenhouse, also called a solar greenhouse or stove-house, is a permanent, enterable structure for growing crops under controlled temperature, humidity, and light, trapping the sun's heat.
Greenhouse Academy
Greenhouse Academy is a Netflix teen drama (2017–2020), the English remake of Giora Chamizer's Israeli series HaHamama (החממה), produced entirely in Israel by Nutz Productions, four seasons, 40 episodes, canceled in 2020.
Greenhouse and icehouse Earth
Greenhouse and icehouse Earth are Earth's two recurring climate states, defined by polar ice, alternating for over 2.5 billion years; Earth is now in an icehouse state.
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect, also called greenhouse warming, warms a planet's surface as gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide absorb infrared radiation, adding about 33 °C on Earth.
Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas (GHG) is a gas, such as carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide, that absorbs infrared radiation and warms Earth's lower atmosphere and surface.
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions, also known as carbon or GHG emissions, are releases of gases like carbon dioxide and methane that warm the atmosphere, reaching 59 GtCO2-eq in 2019.
Greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands
Greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands: methane, CO2, and N2O fluxes from waterlogged soils. Wetlands emit ~159 Tg CH4/yr, the largest natural methane source, controlled by water table, temperature, and substrates.
Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act
The Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act is a 2018 Canadian federal statute establishing the federal carbon pricing backstop, upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2021.
Greenhouse George
Greenhouse George was a 225-kiloton United States nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll on May 9, 1951, the third Operation GREENHOUSE shot and the first controlled thermonuclear burn on earth.
Greenhouse millipede
Greenhouse millipede (Oxidus gracilis, garden or hothouse millipede), an East Asian flat-backed millipede (Paradoxosomatidae) introduced worldwide; 16–21 mm, 30–31 leg pairs, decomposer and greenhouse nuisance pest.
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) is the world's largest island, a self-governing Arctic territory of about 56,000 people within the Kingdom of Denmark, with its capital at Nuuk.
Greenland (film)
Greenland (2020) is a Ric Roman Waugh disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin as a family fleeing comet Clarke to Greenland bunkers; released on VOD December 18, 2020, grossing $52.3 million, with sequel Greenland: Migration (2026).
Greenland 2: Migration
Greenland 2: Migration, also called Greenland 2, is a 2026 American post-apocalyptic disaster thriller directed by Ric Roman Waugh and starring Gerard Butler, the sequel to Greenland.
Greenland crisis
Diplomatic crisis over Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), a self-governing Danish territory, triggered by US purchase and control ambitions from 2019, intensified late 2025, acute January 2026 with tariff threats, the 1951 defence agreement, Pituffik Space Base, and Greenland's 2009 self-determination act.
Greenland Dog
Greenland Dog (Grønlandshund, Qimmeq Qimuttoq), FCI standard 274, an ancient Arctic sledge spitz from Greenland with Danish patronage; males 60 cm and up, any colour except merle or albino, bold working temperament.
Greenland Holdings Group
Greenland Holdings Group (绿地控股集团) is a Shanghai state-controlled conglomerate in real estate and infrastructure, once China's seventh-largest property developer and in deep financial distress since 2022.
Greenland Ice Core Project
The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a European project that drilled a 3,029-meter ice core to bedrock at Summit, Greenland, between 1989 and 1992, covering 250,000 years of climate.
Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is the ice sheet covering about 80 percent of Greenland: 1.7 million km², over 3 km thick, 7.4 m sea-level equivalent, losing mass annually since the late 1990s.
Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean between eastern Greenland and the Norwegian Sea, bounded by the Fram Strait and the Denmark Strait.
Greenland shark
Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), a North Atlantic and Arctic sleeper shark; longest-lived vertebrate, eye-lens radiocarbon dating giving 392 ± 120 years for the oldest specimen, maturity at ~156 years, fermented in Iceland as hákarl.
Greenlanders
Greenlanders (Kalaallit) are the roughly 57,000 people of Greenland, mostly Indigenous Inuit of Thule descent with about 25% European ancestry, self-governing under Denmark since 1979 and recognized as 'a people' by the 2009 Self-Government Act.
Greenlandic independence
Greenlandic independence (Kalaallit Nunaat's separation from Denmark): the section 21 Self-Government Act procedure, never started, requiring a Greenlandic decision, referendum, and Folketing consent; blocked mainly by the Danish block grant and shaped by the 2026 US defence agreement.
Greenlandic Inuit
Greenlandic Inuit (Kalaallit, Tunumiit, Inughuit) are the Indigenous Inuit peoples of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), about 56,000 people in a self-governing Danish territory, descended mainly from Thule culture migrants from Alaska.
Greenlandic language
Greenlandic, known natively as kalaallisut, is the official Inuit language of Greenland, spoken by roughly 56,000 people in Greenland and Denmark; its standard form is West Greenlandic, and it is highly polysynthetic.
Greenlandic literature
Greenlandic literature is the literature of Greenland, combining a pre-colonial oral tradition of myths, legends, and songs with written works in Greenlandic and Danish from the late nineteenth century.