Mark Stratton

1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Mark Stratton

IN FOCUSFor wildlife close encounters in one of the world’s remotest places, there’s nowhere like South Georgia, says Mark Stratton“One cannot be angry when one looks at a penguin,” wrote the English essayist John Ruskin in 1860. And he was right. Whether it was tears of joy, or my eyes watering at the fishy pong of several hundred thousand king penguins shoehorned along St Andrews Bay beach, I was wreathed in smiles.

1 month ago | the-independent.com | Mark Stratton

IN FOCUSFor wildlife close encounters in one of the world’s remotest places, there’s nowhere like South Georgia, says Mark Stratton“One cannot be angry when one looks at a penguin,” wrote the English essayist John Ruskin in 1860. And he was right. Whether it was tears of joy, or my eyes watering at the fishy pong of several hundred thousand king penguins shoehorned along St Andrews Bay beach, I was wreathed in smiles.

2 months ago | phillytrib.com | Mark Stratton

A few months ago, Greenland was quietly getting on with winter, as the territory slid deeper into the darkness that envelops the world’s northerly reaches at this time of year. But President Donald Trump’s musings about America taking over this island of 56,000 largely Inuit people, halfway between New York and Moscow, has seen Greenland shaken from its frozen Arctic anonymity. Denmark, for whom Greenland is an autonomous crown dependency, has protested it’s not for sale.

Mar 28, 2025 | krdo.com | Mark Stratton

By Mark Stratton, CNN(CNN) — A few months ago, Greenland was quietly getting on with winter, as the territory slid deeper into the darkness that envelops the world’s northerly reaches at this time of year. But President Donald Trump’s musings about America taking over this island of 56,000 largely Inuit people, halfway between New York and Moscow, has seen Greenland shaken from its frozen Arctic anonymity.

Mar 28, 2025 | sg.style.yahoo.com | Mark Stratton

A few months ago, Greenland was quietly getting on with winter, as the territory slid deeper into the darkness that envelops the world’s northerly reaches at this time of year. But President Donald Trump’s musings about America taking over this island of 56,000 largely Inuit people, halfway between New York and Moscow, has seen Greenland shaken from its frozen Arctic anonymity. Denmark, for whom Greenland is an autonomous crown dependency, has protested it’s not for sale.