Environment – Page 8 – Greenland from the Outside In

*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….

*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…

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…

Last Saturday was Climate Day in Nuuk, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Greenland Climate Research Centre and draw attention to climate…

Like a mirage in the desert, or the disillusioning sense of movement when in a stationary train next to a moving one, a…

I love this picture. When I look at it, I am overcome by the strange combination of terror and hilarity. The contrast makes…

A couple of years ago, the Australian Ambassador to Denmark visited Nuuk and, through the grapevine, his office was put in touch with…

Trees are so rare in Greenland that it’s odd when you see them. The tree line doesn’t make it above sea level. Instead,…

*Photography by Samuel Zeller, Unsplash As we sailed seaward thin sullen clouds, hanging low over the water, slunk back into the fjord, driven…

Greenland from the Outside In