Greenland Comes In From The Cold
The last decade has brought with it markedly higher summer temperatures in the arctic North. In southern Greenland farmers have planted fields of potatoes as the growing season has lengthened.
Plans are afoot to establish forests of Siberian Larch on this windswept and treeless island. For Greenlanders, all 56,000 of them, the long-term prospect of being able to “grow their own”, from tomatoes to timber, is little short of intoxicating. Eighty percent of Greenland is covered in ice. For thousands of years Inuit peoples have eked out a precarious living along the coastal fringe, reliant on the sea’s bounty: fish, seals and whales. But now the climate is changing, and so too are the traditional rhythms of Inuit life…. (more @ BBC News)
