Short news from Greenland.
The water from melting glaciers in Greenland will be used commercially to solve drought problems in other parts of the world. The Greenland government is thus offering a solution to glacier melt and water shortages as a result of global warming. Up to 16 commercial companies will receive permission to collect glacier water in Greenland and sell it worldwide.
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In the Maldives, the impacts of climate change have long been a reality. A conversation with Environment Minister Hussain Rasheed Hassan about disappearing islands and disaster plans.
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How coal mining is beheading the Appalachian Mountains and devastating a region.
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The football legend tells about a custom in Brazil.
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Ahmed Soura lost his family in Burkina Faso and suffered racism in Europe. When he danced to Händel’s “Messiah” in Berlin, he understood: those who really want to be free must redeem themselves.
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We need a rhetoric of pleasure, not of guilt, postulates the philosopher Timothy Morton. A conversation about solar-powered clubs and saving the polar bears.
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