Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: Scandinavian music, South By Southwest, SXSW, SXSW 2010
This year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas is set to promote Scandinavian music, with around fifty different Scandinavian artists and musicians showcasing in front of countless music lovers and journalists.
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Posted in Culture, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, General, Greenland, Iceland, International, Leisure, Music, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden, United States
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Posted in Business, Canada, Culture, Denmark, European Union, Greenland, MBL, Norway, Politics
Posted on 27 January 2010. Tags: climate, Iceland, polar bear, safety
A polar bear was spotted today in Thistilfjordur, northeast Iceland by a farm worker who was stood less than 100 metres from the bear when she noticed.
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Posted in General, Greenland, Iceland, MBL
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.
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Posted in Denmark, Environment, Greenland, MBL
Posted on 19 January 2010. Tags: dagsavisen, Iceland, Icesave, Norway, opinion
Professor Oystein Noreng of the Norwegian School of Management argued in his column for Dagsavisen this weekend that Norway should support Iceland financially, and potentially even enter into monetary union with Iceland and jointly co-manage fish stocks.
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Posted in European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, International, MBL, Norway, Politics
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.
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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.
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Posted in Denmark, Environment, Greenland, International, MBL, Travel