Global warming may be bad news for Greenland’s polar bears, wolves, musk ox and whales, but it could mean new economic opportunities for the Arctic island’s fishing and tourism-dependent human inhabitants.
Satellite images taken over the past several decades show the dramatic disappearance of ice, including on the island’s inland areas, where the ice fields can in places be up to three and a half kilometers deep. A study just published by scientists with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows that this ice could lose a fifth of its mass in 500 years.
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