Climate Change at the Edge of the World - El Pais Semanal
Greenland is melting. And that has awakened the greed of powers like the U.S. and revealed the scars of a people trying to overcome past traumas while looking to the future.
I joined an expedition to the island’s far northwest with a group of Spanish scientists studying global warming at a remote, unnamed glacier. What happens on this island affects the entire planet. The Inuit hunters guiding the team there live in Qaanaaq, a town founded by people displaced from the village that was taken over during the Cold War to build the U.S. military base. They still remember it.
