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Crystal Expedition Cruises first vessel Crystal Endeavo r is to start sailing around Iceland this summer. The luxury line claims the $500 million ship will be “the first and only” luxury expedition yacht to restart cruising in the Arctic and Northern Europe. The 200-passenger ship will run five cruises cicumnavigating Iceland and crossing the Artic Circle from July 17. The ten-night sailings will operate from Reykjavik with reduced capacity. The summer homeport enables non-stop flight airline access from the US and Europe. Crystal announced in February that guests must be fully inoculat...

Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/3qfIy For the Sami people, the Supreme Court ruling was an historic moment - the culmination of a decade-long legal battle. Yet it is one that has sparked outrage among some non-indigenous hunters and anglers. Sweden’s top judges conferred exclusive fishing and small game hunting rights to the Sami in the village of Girjas Sameby, persuaded by their argument that Sami people had been hunting, fishing and grazing reindeer here since time immemorial until the Swedish state came and took away more and more land.      Some 20,000 to 40,000 Sami people live in Swe...

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Princess Cruises announced its 13 th annual Australia-based 2023 World Cruise perfect for cruise seekers who want to check off every destination on their travel bucket list. This once-in-a-lifetime, 107-day destination-filled voyage onboard Coral Princess goes on sale March 2, 2021. Coral Princess 2023 World Cruise highlights include: Sailing 32,500 nautical miles through the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, three historic locks of the Panama Canal and the Pacific Ocean – this epic voyage crosses the Artic Circle once and the equator twice. The 107-day cruise v...

Jan 25, 2021 6:41pm Paul Smith holds a doctorate in atmospheric science and works on the front lines of climate change science, collecting carbon readings from a remote site in sub-artic Sweden. One of his many jobs involves climbing a 150-meter mast to maintain an array of air quality sensors. (Paul Smith)   Obtaining carbon readings from the atmosphere in minus-30 degree Centigrade weather during mid-winter in Sweden sounds like a job for an extreme athlete. Paul Smith does that work, even though he is more of an extreme research engineer with a few athletic skills to boot. With a doctora...