Read the full article on Wired UK The Covid-19 pandemic has interrupted many scientific missions in the Arctic, including the field season of the East Greenland Ice Core Project (EGRIP) hat since 2015 has measured the movements of glaciers in Greenland. Its 30–35 international scientists study how fast-moving glaciers will contribute to future sea-level change.

Nordic noir (also known as Scandinavian or Scandi noir) is a genre of crime fiction set in Scandinavia or Nordic countries, mainly police procedurals, usually set in bleak, dark landscapes and written depicting a tension between the apparently bland, quiet social surface and the violence lying underneath. The popularity of…

Traveler (Condé Nast) has published an interesting insight on how Greenland is approaching tourism: it has a strong interest in it, but it is also determined to avoid the overtourism troubles experienced by Iceland. On this subject, we recently interviewed Hermann Helguson, a professional tourist guide who works on both…

Fermented fish are among the Scandinavian delicatessen even if… it takes some effort to appreciate it, as it surely is an ‘aquired taste’ — to say the least. …

The Icelandic Horse is a breed of horse developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Norse settlers, probably Viking Age Scandinavians, between 860 and 935 AD. Although they are at times pony-sized, most breed registries refer to it as a horse: it could be for the breed’s temperament/personality and/or because…

[Post bearing heavily reworked rephrasing and summarization from the original article, wonderfully written by Jerard Fagerberg @ Thetakeout.com, please read it in full, it is truly great!!! Picture @ Pixabay] Richard Tellström, a professor of food history at Stockholm University [explains] that fish skin (often from lutfisk) was used in…

Denmark and Iceland working at digital vaccine passports Denmark is currently developing a digital vaccine passport that would allow vaccinated people to travel, becoming the latest European country to do so. Initially geared toward travel, the Finance Minister Morten Boedskov during a news conference stated that "it will be the extra passport that you will be able to have on your mobile phone that documents that you have been vaccinated". Last week, Iceland said it would start issuing digital "vaccination certificates" to citizens who have received two vaccine shots as well as recognize vaccine passports from qualified incoming travelers. Read the full article by Alison Fox on Travel+Leisure

Dear readers, this interview is very special to me because there is some strong common ground with Thor Árbjörnsson: just like him, I also have a background in both the music and the food (ho.re.ca.) industries. …

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