Tag Archive | "Greenland"
Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: archaeology, dna, Greenland, history, science, Sweden
A hair sample has been used by scientists to recreate a detailed picture of an ancient Greenlander. A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen claims to have reconstructed the first detailed ancient human genome, naming the discovery Inuk – the Greenlandic word for man. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, Environment, General, Greenland, MBL, Technology
Posted on 21 February 2010. Tags: emmigration, Greenland, independence, people, students
The Greenlandic finance minister Palle Christiansen has declared the steady exodus of manpower from the country as the biggest hurdle facing Greenland’s ongoing quest for independence. Read the full story
Posted in Culture, Denmark, General, Greenland, Lifestyle, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 03 February 2010. Tags: Denmark, Greenland, independence, Politics
The Danish parliament’s elected representatives for Greenland have declared that they are ready to begin negotiations aimed at discontinuing the semi-autonomous country’s involvement in Danish domestic politics. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, Greenland, MBL, Politics
Posted on 29 January 2010. Tags: EU, Greenland, seal, seal ban, trade
Greenland has once again been left without an international voice due to its membership of the Danish Kingdom, with the self-ruling administration unable to formally complain against the newly approved European Union ban on seal-product imports to the World Trade Organisation. Read the full story
Posted in Business, Canada, Culture, Denmark, European Union, Greenland, MBL, Norway, Politics
Posted on 22 January 2010. Tags: Denmark, Greenland, independence, minerals, money, subsidies
Mineral and oil income is expected, within five years, to surpass the current handouts from Copenhagen that Greenland lives off. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, Environment, Greenland, MBL
Posted on 12 January 2010. Tags: Greenland, greenlandic, language, unesco
The United Nations culture agency has declared that two variations of the Greenlandic language are facing potential extinction. Read the full story
Posted in Culture, Greenland, International, Lifestyle, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 05 January 2010. Tags: cruise ship, danish navy, Greenland, icebergs
The Danish navy stationed in Greenland has warned of impending Titanic-style disasters as cruise liners stray too close to the region’s icebergs. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, Environment, Greenland, International, MBL, Travel
Posted on 28 December 2009. Tags: climate change, Greenland, kuupik kleist, Politics
The Premier of Greenland, Kuupik Kleist, has claimed that his country is at a crossroads with decisions to be made in the determining of the future of the state. The Premier made the assertion at an administration-sponsored exhibition as reported in Sermitsiaq. Read the full story
Posted in Business, Culture, Energy, Environment, Greenland, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 08 December 2009. Tags: Greenland, hospital, Iceland, medical, money
Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, Medical Manager at Iceland’s Akureyri Hospital, said at a meeting with Greenlandic counterparts and the country’s Minister for Health that Iceland should send doctors to Greenland. Read the full story
Posted in Denmark, General, Greenland, Iceland, Lifestyle, MBL, Politics
Posted on 15 November 2009. Tags: Arctic, conference, Greenland, inuit, male, saami, suicide
An international conference held in Nuuk has sought to understand why so many young men in the circumpolar region take their own lives. Read the full story
Posted in Canada, Culture, Finland, Greenland, International, Lifestyle, MBL, Norway, Saami, Scandinavia, Society, Sweden