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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.

Healing old wounds: The revival of Greenlandic Inuit tattoos in Denmark

Lifestyle & Belief

Greenland’s Indigenous peoples once wore bold face tattoos that carried deep spiritual and cultural significance. But during the centuries of Denmark’s colonial rule, the Inuit tradition of getting face and hand tattoos disappeared. One Inuk tattoo artist is now reviving a piece of Inuit heritage for community members living in Denmark.

A small crowd of people are shown examining green ballots next to rows of boxes.

Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election

Politics
Three people walk across ground covered in ice and snow as the horizon stretches behind them.

As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists push to learn ‘how fast’

The Big Melt
A man is perched atop a propeller of a small twin engine plane on a tarmac. The plane is bright cherry red.

At sea and in the sky, scientists brave wicked weather to explore a key ocean current

Climate Change
Kim Høegh-Dam is the founder of Iluliaq Seafood A/S.

Fishermen in Greenland are doing better than ever. That might be thanks to climate change.

Environment
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A research team crossing an ice plateau in the Indian Himalayas faced risks of hidden crevasses, storms, avalanches and earthquakes.

Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.

Science

Climate change research in extreme environments is a dangerous business, but scientists say getting boots on the ground is vital to understanding where we’re headed as we warm the planet.

The World

Watch one scientist’s unorthodox approach to getting ‘inside the mind of a musk ox’

Science

It involves a grizzly bear costume and nerves of steel.

Archive photo of the US’s cold war-era Camp Century in Greenland.

Waste from a secret US base was left to be entombed “forever” in Greenland’s ice. But forever has changed.

Environment

Camp Century was part of a top secret US plan to deploy nuclear weapons beneath Greenland’s ice sheet. 50 years after it was abandoned, scientists say a warming Arctic may expose the waste left behind.

Archive photo of the US’s cold war-era Camp Century in Greenland.

Waste from a secret US base was left to be entombed “forever” in Greenland’s ice. But forever has changed.

Environment

Camp Century was part of a top secret US plan to deploy nuclear weapons beneath Greenland’s ice sheet. 50 years after it was abandoned, scientists say a warming Arctic may expose the waste left behind.

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

Looking small for big answers in Greenland

Environment

Scientists working in Greenland are looking for tiny clues to help fill in the big picture about the fate of the island’s giant ice pack. They’re using cutting edge technology to track minute changes that could help predict what a warmer future might hold for Greenland and the rest of the world.

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