Category: Environment
Potato camping
I read that doctors in Scotland are prescribing a walk in nature to people afflicted with mental illness, diabetes, heart disease, and stress,…
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Fermented shark?
*Photo by Julian Idrobo, Creative Commons I used to live in Australia’s tropical north where it’s so hot and humid that you long…
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Winter is here
My eyelids flickered in the grey November Copenhagen morning. It seemed too dark to be waking. Then my focus fixed on the red…
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“Can you phone a friend?” asked the police.
Last week, my husband was out fishing on a fjord close to Nuuk. When he was ready to return home, he turned the…
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One fish, two fish, red fish…no fish
People say that no matter what the debate in the Greenlandic parliament, the politicians always end up talking about fish. Fishing dominates Greenland’s…
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A rushing tide, a raging river
When you sail into Nuuk fjord, it looks big. A wide expanse of water opens out in front of you. But sailing south…
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Not that kind of chocolate
“Does Nuuk have a chocolate factory?!” asked my son excitedly, having overheard a conversation between my husband and I. “It’s not that kind…
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October Arctic Storms
*Photo by Peter Mark Jacobsen. See The Fourth Continent. October swings around again, with the prospect of autumn storms, and I am reminded…
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“You can get out now,” the pilot said
The whop whop whop of the helicopter blades grew in the distance. We’d been slumped, resting on the packed boxes, waiting for that…
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