*Nuuk Snow Festival We lived in Darwin for some years, where the day-time temperature is thirty-two degrees year round. Only the humidity changes. The biggest variations come in the dry season, when the evening temperatures drop. Thus, on one June evening by the grassy foreshore, soft waves brushing the sandy beach nearby, I found myself …

*Musk ox, Wikimedia commons Musk ox are seriously weird animals. They’re like something straight out of Star Wars. A skull-like plate wraps its broad head and sweeps out into a pair of curved horns, like a bony handlebar moustache. A motley brown shaggy coat seems roughly thrown over an animal that looks a bit like …

Photo by Jose Fontano on Unsplash Living in Greenland, I miss the sound of rain. That’s not to say that it doesn’t rain in Greenland. It does. Sometimes a lot. But I miss the sound of it. Sitting in my living room, I can see the rain falling, but through triple-glazed windows, I can’t hear …