Nowhere on Earth is climate change happening faster than in the Arctic, where the island of Greenland – a colony of Denmark that's home to about 56,000 full-time residents – stands as one of the most visible symbols of the impacts that are already being felt.
Warming temperatures are making it possible to mine once-inaccessible and vast deposits of gold, uranium and diamonds, while at the same time the ice sheet that covers most of the island is melting more rapidly today than in decades.
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