MEDIA
2024
New York Times “New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity”
Scientific American “Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand”
2022
Hakai Magazine “Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Brings an Unexpected Flow of Wealth Potential”
Interview with Moira Donovan
McGill Tribune “As ice sheets melt, will Greenland mine?”
Interview with Ella Paulin
Mongabay “Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting sand from melting ice sheet”
Interview with Moira Donovan
Le Monde “Greenland realizes the untapped potential of sand”
Interview with Simon Roger
Wired Magazine “Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Spew a Complicated Treasure: Sand”
Interview with Matt Simon
CTV “Scientists warn of looming sand shortage”
TV-Interview with Your Morning, Anne-Marie Mediwake
La Presse “LE GROENLAND, FENÊTRE VERS L’AVENIR”
Interview with Mathieu Perreault
Foreign Policy “The Great Sand Grab”
Discover Magazine
2021
CTV “Our demand for sand is leading to a sustainability crisis: experts”
Interview with Deena Zaidi
McGill Tribune “The human cost of a warmer future”
Interview with Madison Edward-Wright
McGill Tribune “The social and environmental toll of concrete production”
Interview with Raymond Tu
DR (Danish National network) “Vi er ved at løbe tør for sand “
Interview (in Danish) with Lasse Winther
Radio NOVA (Danish radio channel) “Aftenklubben”
Interview (in Danish) with Daniel Cesar
DR (Danish National network) “Verden mangler desperat sand, og det koster allerede menneskeliv”
Interview (in Danish) with Simon Andersen Nielsen
Sunday Briefing “Opportunities in the great global sand shortage”
Interview with James White
Financial Times “Boom in illegal sand mining threatens vulnerable lakes and rivers”
Interview with Leslie Hook
Reuters “The messy business of sand mining explained”
Interview with Katy Daigle
2019
Dagbladet Information, ‘Sand er blevet mange penge værd. Så mange at nogle vil slå ihjel for det’.
Video on our work ‘Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland’
Interview (in Danish) with Mads Thorup Thomsen
Late Night Live, ABC Radio Nation (Australia)
Interview with Phillip Adams
Nature Podcast
Interview with Adam Levy
New York Times “Melting Greenland is awash in Sand”
Feature article by Henry Fountain and Ben C. Solomon
Der Spiegel “Grönland könnte reich werden - durch Sand”
Interview (in German) - written by Christoph Seidler
EOS - Earth and space science news “Sand from Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Could Bring in Business”
Interview - written by Jenessa Duncombe
Reuters “As ice melts, Geenland could become big and exporter”
Interview - written by Alistair Doyle
Popular Science “Greenland’s melting glaciers are unearthing a hidden economic goldmine”
Interview - written by Ula Crobak
EARTHER, Gizmodo “Greenland’s melt will drive up sea levels… But also give us sand”
Interview - written by Yessenia Funes
Berlingske Tidende (Danish newspaper) “Danske forskere: Grønland kan sælge sand til Sahara” - “Danish scientists: Greenland can sell sand to Sahara”
Interview - written by Lars Henrik Aagaard
Weekendavisen (Danish newspaper) “Sand for milliarder” - “Sand for billions”
Interview written by Kristoffer Lottrup
Eye-on-the-Arctic, Radio Canada International “Climate change could unleash Greenland sand bonanza, says researchers”
Radio interview by Eilis Quinn'
Vetenskapsradion, Sveriges Radio “Forskare: Grönland möjlig klimavinnare”
Radio interview by Gustaf Klarin
2018
Science “Funding agencies can prevent harassment”
Comment by Lars Lønsmann Iversen and myself.
2017
AGU TV 2017 - Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Mangement “Past, Present and future climate change” University of Copenhagen
The Independent “Sand mafias and vanishing islands: How the world is dealing with the global sand shortage”
Interview - Written by Joss Gabbatiss
HISTORIC IMAGES REVEAL A GROWING LAND IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Underground Channel video of our work on Greenland’s deltas from 2017
Scientific American “Greenland’s Coasts are Growing as Seas Rise”
Interview - Written by Chelsea Harvey
Washington Post “Scientists mapping Greenland have produced some surprising – and worrying – results”
Article - Written by Chris Mooney
Politiken (Danish newspaper) “Se den utrolige forvandling: Fotografier fra Anden Verdenskrig afslører, at Grønland vokser” - “Watch the amazing transformation: Photos from World War II reveal a growing Greenland”
Interview - Written by Lasse Foghsgaard
Polarfronten (Danish popular scientific magazine) “Fra høvl til hav” - “From planer to sea”
Interview - Written by Uffe Wilken
Aktuel Naturvidenskab (Danish popular scientific magazine) “Grønlands deltaer - vokser når klimaet bliver varmere” - “The deltas of Greenland - grow when climate is warming”
Article - Written by Mette Bendixen & Lars Lønsmann Iversen
www.videnskab.dk (Danish webpage on scientific news) “Paradoksalt: Grønland vokser i takt med global opvarmning” - “A Paradox: Greenland is growing as climate is warming”
Article - Written by ele & ipb
2014
Geografisk Orientering (Danish popular scientific magazine) “Den sårbare kyst” - “The Vulnerable coast”
Article - Written by Mette Bendixen, Bo Elberling, Aart Kroon