In Greenland, potatoes thrive as seal hunting wanes

Global warming is a boon for farmers and fishermen but a hardship for ice-dependent Inuit.

Perhaps nowhere else in the world are the effects of climate change as obvious as in Greenland, where warming temperatures have brought a mixed blessing to its 56,000 residents. As winter sea ice disappears, the traditional means that the indigenous Inuit people have developed to survive in the Arctic – sled dog mushing, seal hunting, ice-hole fishing – are rapidly becoming obsolete. Farming, an occupation all but unheard of a century ago, has never looked better.

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