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Greenland

In front of a floor-to-ceiling glass door in the living room of Najannguac Dalgård Christensen, necklaces with amulets carved out of bone and seal claws dangle from a coat hanger.
Lifestyle & Belief
Healing old wounds: The revival of Greenlandic Inuit tattoos in Denmark
A small crowd of people are shown examining green ballots next to rows of boxes.
Politics
Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election
Three people walk across ground covered in ice and snow as the horizon stretches behind them.
The Big Melt
As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists push to learn ‘how fast’
A man is perched atop a propeller of a small twin engine plane on a tarmac. The plane is bright cherry red.
Climate Change
At sea and in the sky, scientists brave wicked weather to explore a key ocean current
Kim Høegh-Dam is the founder of Iluliaq Seafood A/S.
Environment
Fishermen in Greenland are doing better than ever. That might be thanks to climate change.
A research team crossing an ice plateau in the Indian Himalayas faced risks of hidden crevasses, storms, avalanches and earthquakes.
Science
Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.
Science
Watch one scientist’s unorthodox approach to getting ‘inside the mind of a musk ox’
Archive photo of the US’s cold war-era Camp Century in Greenland.
Environment
Waste from a secret US base was left to be entombed “forever” in Greenland’s ice. But forever has changed.
Archive photo of the US’s cold war-era Camp Century in Greenland.
Environment
Waste from a secret US base was left to be entombed “forever” in Greenland’s ice. But forever has changed.
Greenland's Sermilik fjord is choked with huge icebergs from one of the island's biggest glaciers. But climate researchers working in the fjord and on the Helheim glacier are looking for tiny clues in hopes of getting a better handle on how cliamte change
Environment
Looking small for big answers in Greenland
Dark rock above the Helheim glacier in southeastern Greenland marks its former level, before a sudden and dramatic retreat of hit many Greenland glaciers a decade ago. Scientists working on the Helheim and the fjord it drains into are looking for clues to
Environment
In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone
Eight nations share the territory of the Arctic, which is experiencing the fastest changes of any part of the earth as global temperatures rise. The United States will emphasize addressing the causes and impacts of climate change in the region when it tak
Environment
As new leader of the Arctic Council, the US will focus on the region’s Big Thaw
Greenland Melt Music
Environment
Greenland ice sheet experiences massive melt in mid-July
Environment
Huge ice island breaks off of Greenland glacier
Environment
Mapping error sparks new stance on climate change
Greenland Melt Music
Arts, Culture & Media
Greenland’s Future At Stake in Elections
Greenland Sharks: The Apex Predator
Environment
Satellites Reveal Sudden Greenland Ice Melt
Environment
Linked by Coal: South Carolina, Seattle, China and Greenland
Environment
Northern Arctic Outpost in Canada
Business, Economics and Jobs
Name That Strait!
Arts, Culture & Media
Inuit Singers Elisapie Isaac & Simon Lynge
Arts, Culture & Media
Björk’s Biophilia
Arts, Culture & Media
Studying an Inuit Language Threatened with Extinction
Environment
Times Atlas erroneously depicts Greenland land erosion
Environment
Greenland ice sheets melting faster than predicted
Native Traditions and Climate Change
Arctic Gender Imbalance
Greenland’s Ice Melt
Animal Update
Environment
Ducks brave Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier in the name of science
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer
Global Politics
Self-rule vote in Greenland
Arts, Culture & Media
Lost nuclear bomb in Greenland