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POLAR BEAR Weight: 440 to 1,760 lbs. Length: Up to 8 ft. 5 in. Range: Greenland, Norway, Russia, Canada, Alaska How dangerous: Extremely. The polar bear will stalk humans for food Status: It could be extinct by the end of the century, as global warming reduces the ice it roams in its hunt for seals, its primary food...
While all that was going on, a colony of about 5,000 tenacious Norsemen was suffering a similar fate thousands of miles to the north. They had audaciously established a settlement on Greenland's comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...
...Norse had bigotry and ignorance working against them too. They referred to the local Inuit as skraelings (loosely, wretches) while ignoring the fact that those wretches nimbly harvested calorie-rich seals and whales using their technologically sophisticated kayaks. And amazingly, although the fjords and lakes of Greenland are crammed with scrumptious haddock, cod, trout and char, it never occurred to the Norse to go fishing, even as they starved and froze to death. They apparently considered fish taboo and beneath their dignity...
...treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Give me winter, give me dogs and you can keep the rest." So said Knut Rasmussen, the Dane who explored Greenland in the early 20th century. If you, like Rasmussen, feel the call of the wild, consider driving your own canine crew on holiday: one afternoon managing the tangle of tugging harnesses and sled brakes as the huskies yelp and yowl, and you may never get back in your...
...Give me winter, give me dogs and you can keep the rest." So said Knut Rasmussen, the Dane who explored Greenland in the early 20th century. If you, like Rasmussen, feel the call of the wild, consider driving your own canine crew on holiday: one afternoon managing the tangle of tugging harnesses and sled brakes as the huskies yelp and yowl, and you may never get back in your car. The dogs can run up to 5,000 km in a season, often through snow crystals at -25?C. "There is a strong feeling of being dependent on the small...