Blog – Underwater tunnels revolutionize transport in the Faroe Islands
Fifty-five million years ago, the Northeast Atlantic Ocean opened up between Europe and Greenland, pushing the two landmasses apart. In
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Denmark/Greenland
Canada and Denmark set up joint task force to resolve Arctic boundary issues
Canada and Denmark together with Greenland plan to create a joint task force to explore options and provide recommendations on
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Blog – Faroe Islands host Arctic Circle Forum, trumpet “infrastructure miracle”
Situated halfway between Iceland and Scotland, the Faroe Islands are so remote from most people’s minds that even the customs
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Greenland braces for coalition talks to cut through election result murk
With Wednesday’s election result murk, the topsy-turvy world of Greenlandic politics is about to get a lot more interesting as
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Blog – With Siumut’s re-election, will Greenland welcome Chinese investment?
Nearly 30,000 Greenlanders, or some 71.9% of eligible voters, went to the polls today on the world’s largest island. Some
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`Enough of this postcolonial sh#%’ – An interview with Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen
Greenland’s Niviaq Korneliussen is single-handedly redefining readers’ notions of northern literature with her first novel, Homo Sapienne. In her book,
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Denmark’s new defence agreement renews focus on protecting the Baltic
For the first time in over two decades, the Danish government is looking to renew its military’s focus on the
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Blog – Chasing electric blue icebergs in Greenland
Last week, China’s sole icebreaker, Xue Long (Snow Dragon), completed its first voyage through the Northwest Passage. The Ukrainian-built vessel
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Blog – Tales of the unexpected: Inuit shepherds in Greenland
In Greenland, there’s a joke that if you go out to dinner with a Greenlandic people, there’s five people: mom,
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Ice-Blog: Greenland on the horizon
When I first visited Greenland back in 2009, it was not a place that made the news very often. This
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Ice-Blog: Greenland earthquake and tsunami – hazards of melting ice?
Following the news over the weekend with a trip to Greenland this summer at the back of my mind, my
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Ice-Blog: Why Africa has to worry about melting Greenland ice
Working for an international broadcaster which has Africa as one of its key target groups, I often find it difficult
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Ice-Blog: Cheap oil from the Arctic? Fake news, says climate economist Kemfert
This week I came across an interesting publication about to come on to the German market. “The fossil empire strikes
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Q&A: Impact assessments in the Arctic – What Canada and Greenland can learn from each other
MONTREAL — A major conference on the challenges climate change poses for doing impact assessments,wound up in Canada on Friday. Delegates from around the
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Ice-Blog: Arctic sea ice – Is the minimum maximum the new normal?
If you blinked, you might have missed it. The confirmation came this week that the Arctic sea ice reached yet
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