This country is making the most out of global warming


By AGENCY
Children play on icebergs in Nuuk. In April, Greenland saw a record early melt of its vast ice sheets. Photos: Reuters

On top of the world, by a fjord in western Greenland, a remote hydro-power plant is buzzing with extra water from the melt of ancient glaciers. This island at ground zero of global warming is seeking to be one of the few places on Earth to benefit.

Outside the plant in Buksefjord, the biggest of five hydro-electricity stations built in Greenland since 1993 in a push to move away from imported oil, cod that usually only thrive further south can be seen swimming in the clear water.

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