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Greenlanders love that melting ice cap

Scientists from NASA say that Greenland's ice cap is the smallest it has been in 15 years. But it's not seen as bad news by its 56,000 inhabitants: they expect to benefit from vast oil deposits beneath the ice and from the longer crop-growing season.

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Melting Greenland Ice Cap Causing Earthquakes

"The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off." The Ilulissat glacier is sliding on a melt-water river, into the sea, at a rate of 15km a year.

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Deep Beneath Iceland's Biggest Ice Cap

Greenland sends aid for Iqaluit fire victims

The Greenlandic Red Cross has donated 50,000 Danish kroner — about $8,800 — to help people who lost their homes in a fire Sunday in Iqaluit.

The ice road to Attawapiskat

The ice road to Attawapiskat

Data sheds light on glacier speed

Greenland's glaciers are not speeding up as much as previously thought and may be contributing "significantly less" to sea-level rise, a study says.

VIDEO: Inuit protest against seal ban

Inuit hunters from Greenland have been protesting in the Danish capital Copenhagen over the decision by a major department store to stop selling seal products.