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Out & About: Dartmouth hires new Arctic Studies director >Melody Brown Burkins is the new director of Dartmouth College s Institute of Arctic Studies. (Robert Gill photograph) Courtesy photograph Courtesy photograph
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HANOVER Dartmouth College has selected Alaska native Melody Brown Burkins to be the director of its Institute of Arctic Studies.
Burkins, previously the associate director for programs and research at Dartmouth’s John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, began her new role July 1, according to a news release from the college. She replaces Ross Virginia, a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth.
Virginia will continue to teach at the college in addition to serving in leadership roles at University of Greenland, University of the Arctic and the U.S. National Academies of Polar Research.
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Battle for rare earth minerals turns radioactive
Greenland has 25pc of the world’s key elements, but fears over uranium has put their mining into the spotlight
17 April 2021 • 3:00pm
A quarter of the world’s rare earth materials can be found beneath the southern fjords of Greenland
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Overlooking the small fishing town of Narsaq, next to painted houses and slow-moving icebergs, lies one the last great untapped deposits of rare earth materials.
About a quarter of the world’s rare earth minerals are thought to be found here, deep in the southern fjords of Greenland, providing key ingredients needed to build everything from wind turbines or electric vehicles.
Members of Greenland’s Inuit Ataqatigiit wave party flags as they celebrate following the exit polls results of the legislative election in Nuuk, on April 6, 2021. The party won with 36.6 per cent of the vote, defeating the ruling Siumut party which received 29.4 per cent. (Emil Helms / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images)
The future of a rare earth mineral extraction project in Greenland is now up in the air, after the left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit party won Greenland’s election on Tuesday in a campaign often dominated by the controversial mining plan.
As the dust settled Wednesday, elections Greenland reported Inuit Ataqatigiit won with 36.6 per cent of the vote, defeating the ruling Siumut party which received 29.4 per cent.