Glen Jeffries is a lawyer and writer based in Tromsø, in north Norway. Originally from the United Kingdom, he has studied and worked in Oxford, London and New York. He moved to Norway in 2016 to focus on marine and environmental law in the polar regions (and to learn to traverse snow gracefully). He likes to write about whales, the wilds and wrestling. https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/contributor/glen-jeffries/rss en Northern People & Health Solutions Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:31:34 +0000 Glen Jeffries https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/08/15/introducing-a-saami-centered-solution-to-substance-abuse https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/08/15/introducing-a-saami-centered-solution-to-substance-abuse The Saami Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Mental Health and Substance Use has found success in a strategy that leans heavily on exposing its clients to the outdoors. Environment Wed, 07 Jun 2017 05:00:44 +0000 Glen Jeffries https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/06/07/blight-or-blessing-how-the-wolverine-embodies-arctic-diversity https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/06/07/blight-or-blessing-how-the-wolverine-embodies-arctic-diversity In northern Norway, wolverines largely subsist off the region’s semi-domesticated reindeer herds. That has prompted the government to institute annual culls – but such elusive beasts are proving difficult to hunt, and a backlash from environmentalists is growing, too. Arctic Fri, 05 May 2017 09:19:12 +0000 Glen Jeffries https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/05/05/qala-the-path-of-the-unseen-whale-across-the-surface-of-the-sea https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/05/05/qala-the-path-of-the-unseen-whale-across-the-surface-of-the-sea HAKAI: A diving whale leaves glassy prints on the surface of the water. For the Iñupiaq hunter, these ‘flukeprints’ are an important clue as to where the animal may be headed next. Energy & Natural Resources Fisheries Fri, 21 Apr 2017 05:00:06 +0000 Glen Jeffries https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/04/21/svalbards-snow-crabs-a-pincered-proxy-for-arctic-oil https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/04/21/svalbards-snow-crabs-a-pincered-proxy-for-arctic-oil The Barents Sea snow crab has prompted an intense bout of legal bickering between the European Union, Norway, the U.S. and Russia. The real dispute, according to Hakai Magazine, may be about a different commodity: oil.