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Kristinn Hrafnsson

A large concrete sphere sits on a brown hill overlooking a slate blue sea.

In Iceland, a shifting sculpture for a changing Arctic  

The Big Melt

A sculpture in Iceland marks the location of the Arctic Circle — at least the circle’s location this year, because it turns out that the Arctic Circle doesn’t stay in one place. It’s a suggestion of how difficult it is to pin down anything in the Arctic.

Wikileaks claims U.S. financial companies are ‘blockading’ it, suspends operations temporarily

Global Politics

WikiLeaks Supports Snowden

The World

Struggling Wikileaks Stops Publishing Classified Files

Global Politics
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