Between 1966 and 1975, Danish health authorities working in Greenland implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs), a form of contraception, in half of Greenland’s 9,000 women of childbearing age. Few of the women or their parents (some of those undergoing the process were...
Once hunted to near extinction, walruses in Greenland can only make themselves comfortable in the national park. Hunting the massive seals is still allowed in Greenland, nota bene as a quota hunt. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) In the Middle Ages, the Norsemen from...
Higher pay lures the journalists away Money, they say, isn’t everything. But it is, according to the management of KNR, Greenland’s public broadcaster, the common denominator that has led to a wave of resignations among journalists that has resulted fewer, shorter...
Minding the gap (Photo: Geus) A map of the Uummannaq Fjord system. The red dot indicates the location of the 2017 Karrat Fjord incident. The green dot indicates the location of the Kigarsima area (Map: Google Maps) The Kigarsima area as it appeared in 2015 and 2021....
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace, releasing vast quantities of freshwater into the North Atlantic. Photo: Dr Michael Wenger When studies are published with new findings related to global warming, they usually convey that the changes are coming faster...