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Ingo Heidbrink on "An Environmental History of Greenland"
Ingo Heidbrink, Carson Fellow from June 2011 to December 2011, talks about his environmental history of Greenland.
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Broadsheet: “Presenting Wild Animals: Two Sea Lions, a White Whale-bear and a Long-tailed Monkey,” June 1754
The graphic reproduction shows the icebear hunt in Greenland, several sailing ships and boats from that time, the long-tailed monkey mentioned in the title, and even a whale in the background.
Perspectives Article
Hydropower: The Unlikely Economic Base for the Complete Sovereignty of Greenland
About eight percent of Earth’s freshwater is located in Greenland. Theoretically, this would mean that Greenland has some of the greatest potential for hydropower in the whole world. However, nearly all its freshwater is permanently frozen.
Perspectives Article
Scarcity in the Arctic: A Colonial Construct?
In European imagination the North Atlantic has been seen as a region on the far borders of civilization and marked by the contrasts of scarcity and plenty.