Financier Soros gifts $139m to human rights watchdog

Continuing a lifelong habit of putting money where his mouth is, George Soros has announced a gift of US$100 million ($139 million) to Human Rights Watch, the organisation which seeks to monitor abuses of power and to lobby transgressing governments and companies.

Gillard ready to get down to real business

Australia gets back to the real business of politics today as both major parties meet in Canberra to map out the next three years under leaders who have each increased their stature in the nation's tightest election for decades.

Angelina Jolie Speaks Out At Planned Quran And Alerts Mental People To It

It must be awful being a wealthy celebrity who takes on the gig of UN ambassador. You have to go to all these poverty stricken places and you’re fully expected to blank out that room you have in one of your houses that is filled with jewels and 68.4 surround sound and the like. Awful. Simply awful.And that’s the plight faced by poor ol’ Angelina Jolie. When she’s not being really rich in the face of flood victims, she highlighting other bad things.

How Canada will become a superpower, making the Northern Rim the envy of the world

Although climate change could still have devastating effects for much of the world, some regions stand to benefit immensely. Canada, Scandinavia, and even Greenland could all become economic powerhouses, making "The New North" a very attractive destination.

No oil found off Greenland ... yet

Tensions in the Arctic are rising again after a Scottish company confirmed indications of oil off the coast of Greenland.
Cairn Energy has not struck oil, but it says its “first well in Greenland provides early indication of working hydrocarbon system”.

Greenland Minerals resumes trading on ASX

PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Uranium explorer Greenland Minerals and Energy has resumed trading on the ASX following a lengthy suspension on speculation that a zero-tolerance policy towards uranium mining in Greenland would impact on its project in that country.

Greenpeace boards ship to prevent offshore oil drilling - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source

Greenland's prime minister has accused Greenpeace of threatening the safety of oil workers and the environment by forcing the rig to shut down.

The campaigners said the four protesters evaded a flotilla of armed Danish navy and police boats, which have been guarding the rigs in Baffin Bay off Greenland since the Greenpeace protest ship Esperanza arrived last week.

Science : Mammoth, reindeer lived on Iberian Peninsula 150,000 years ago

AP Bronze sculptures of mammoths in Moscow, Russia. File photo

Scientists at the University of Oviedo (UO) and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have revealed that although in small numbers, the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros and the reindeer already lived in the Iberian Peninsula 150,000 years ago.

Activists taken from arctic oil rig

NUUK, Greenland, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Activists who scaled a drilling platform off the coast of Greenland were arrested after severe weather forced them off the rig, police said.

Scientists Look Under Greenland's 'Hood'

 
A team of investigators from the United Kingdom says that its current research effort, of peering at the geophysical

and hydrological conditions below the surface of the Greenland ice sheets, are critically important for the future.