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 Stories About: climate change impacts AND Denmark AND Greenland AND news AND politics
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Ice Free or Die
Greenland's melting ice offers new mining opportunities, could fuel independence bid |
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04 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:38 AM on 04 Oct 2007 Even while Greenland's melting ice is slowly destroying the viability of subsistence hunting, it offers new economic opportunities that could ultimately fund the island country's bid for independence from Denmark. Diamond hunters from North America have been coming to Greenland to search for the precious stones in rock uncovered by glacial retreat. Melting ice of ... |
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