Thule Air Base: something American in the state of Denmark (Photo: Heiner Kubny) If there is one theme that runs through Denmark’s annual threat assessment, it is the increasingly tense relations amongst the United States, China and Russia. Directly or indirectly, the...
No mines on the horizon (Photo: Greenland Minerals) At the end of December, the leaders of Greenland Minerals, an Australian-listed firm seeking to begin mining rare-earth elements and uranium in Greenland, asked the country’s mining authorities to clarify what the...
The Goliat platform was the first to operate in the Barents. Conservationists want it to be the last as well (Photo: Eni) For more than half a decade, oil has helped Norway build up a society that by most standards is one of Europe’s healthiest and wealthiest. The...
The hills around Koks are alive with the taste of the Faroe Islands (Photo: Koks) In the world of the gourmand, two Michelin stars signify that a restaurant’s cooking is “worth a detour”. This is something Koks, a Faroese restaurant that has held that ranking since...
A delta of glacial runoff deposits glacial silt into a fjord on Greenland’s western coast (Photo: Minik Rosing) Plumes of dust from Greenland heralding the coming of winter are made up a material that scientists say can be used elsewhere. On October 18, Nasa...
