Three would have been a crowd (Photo: Danish Science Ministry) On December 8, Denmark and South Korea announced they had just signed an agreement that is to help both become wiser about how global warming is affecting the polar regions. As with countless such...
The first port of call (Artist’s conception: City of Nome) Among the 125 ports that service Alaska’s mind-boggling 70,000km of coastline, just four are considered deepwater ports. None of them are found on the portion that lies in the state’s — that is to say...
It’s a family drama of sorts (Photo: Mike Kollöffel) Fans of Borgen, an internationally acclaimed Danish TV series, will know that much of its appeal lies in its believability. When the series premiered in 2010, Danish lawmakers described it as an accurate, if...
No country for old English legends (Photo: Hans-Olof Utsi/imagebank.sweden.se) Not long after he took office as Sweden’s commerce minister in December, Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson was asked to explain to the opposition why so many mining firms had to wait so long to...
Shooting at a hard target (Photo: DIF) Ukaleq Slettemark (pictured) is a Greenlandic biathlete who will be participating in the Winter Olympics in Beijing. But, in the unlikely event that she wins a medal in any of the three races in which she is qualified to compete,...
