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The decline of the island’s ice and increasingly volatile weather have made it hard to maintain some Indigenous traditions.
If the dead whale had lived long enough, he'd likely have made his way to the Arctic, off the coast of Greenland. But Whitehead says the whale's journey wasn't some seasonal migration. "I think he was ...
Whale-watching is excellent all around Greenland’s craggy coastline. Whales are eaten here. Visitors shouldn’t be surprised to encounter the traditional Greenlandic delicacy of mattak ...
Long before there were grocery stores in Greenland, locals survived by hunting and fishing. Since the island doesn't have a lot of plant life, they got their vitamin C from whale skin, The New ...
In Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic circle, President Vladimir Putin vowed to "strengthen Russia's global leadership in the Arctic", while warning that "geopolitical competition in the ...
The Virgin Islands boasts beaches and pirate coves, Greenland has the world's second largest ice sheet. The Virgin isles are a place of stiff rums rather than grizzled whale meats in the frosty ...
Donald Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to consider taking land from Denmark. What did the U.S. want last time and why?
Ships in particular fill the ocean around Greenland with a din that can stress and disorient fishes and marine mammals, like narwhals, seals, and whales. For vocalizing species, it can disrupt ...
I've been assaulted in a bar and had death threats,' said Jorgen Boassen, the most prominent of Greenland's US backers, over a dinner of whale meat, reindeer and chips. 'The police are ...