Near the southern tip of Greenland, lies the old mining town of Ivittuut, now a collection of ramshackle houses and sheds and scattered pieces of old machinery. Ivittuut was once the world’s largest source of cryolite, an extremely rare mineral that w…
Year: 2020
Grieving dog owner’s ‘message in a bottle’ found in Germany
A message in a bottle from a heartbroken dog owner in Wirral appears to have travelled hundreds of miles across the North Sea before being washed up in Germany. It was found by a volunteer ranger from the Wadden Sea conservation station (Schutzstation W…