Greenland, the world’s largest island, home to vast glaciers and unique biodiversity, is today at the heart of global geostrategic and climate challenges.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, northeast of North America. Its vast ice sheet, which covers 80% of the territory, stores around 2.8 million km³ of freshwater—nearly 10% of the world’s reserves. These glaciers influence ocean currents and are a sensitive indicator of global warming: their rapid melting contributes to rising sea levels.
Its Arctic biodiversity, rich yet vulnerable, includes polar bears, seals, musk oxen, cetaceans and, less well known, more than 500 species of vascular plants, not to mention numerous lichens and mosses. Many of these species are threatened by the retreat of ice and the thawing of permafrost, which releases greenhouse gases.
Greenland’s mineral and energy resources are now attracting the interest of major powers, placing the territory at the heart of global geostrategic issues. These economic and political pressures increase the risks to its fragile ecosystems, highlighting the need to reconcile development with the protection of a territory vital to biodiversity and the global climate.
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Flight Little Auks - Kap Hoegh Greenland
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Northern lights over Scoresby Strait. Scoresbysund, Greenland
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Sunset on icebergs in the Scoresbysund, North East Greenland
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A view of Ilulissat icefjord, an UNESCO World Heritage Site, at sunset. Ilulissat Icefjord, [...]
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Knud-Rasmusen glacier (also called Apuseeq glacier) at Sermiligaaq Fjord. in Ammassalik region in [...]
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Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the ice floe of Scoresbysund, Greenland
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Striking iceberg, Scoresbysund, East Greenland, Greenland, North America
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Greenland Ilulissat glaciers at fjord Disco Bay West Greenland
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Valley landscape on the heights of Cape Brewster, ScoresbySund, Greenland
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Jameson Land Tundra, East Coast Greenland
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Inuit settlement, houses in deep snow in front of mountains, blue hour, twilight, winter, Tasiilaq, [...]
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Church and historic building in front of blue sky, cotton grass, summer, Zion's Church, Jakobshavn [...]
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Inuit settlement at a fjord with icebergs, mountainous, autumn, sunny, Tasiilaq, East Greenland, [...]
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Portrait of Raven (Corvus corax), Raffles Island, Liverpool Land in early August, North East [...]
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Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) calling its young, Raffles Island, Liverpool Land in early August, [...]
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Common eider (Somateria mollissima) female and two surviving chicks, East Greenland coast
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Dunlin (Calidris alpina) in the tundra of Hurry fjord, Scoresbysund, Greenland
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Musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) running on the autumn tundra of Scoresby Sound, Greenland
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Female Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) and calf on the autumn tundra of Scoresby Sound, Greenland
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Two young Greenlandic dogs sitting on a rock slab, puppies, Qeqertarsuaq, disco island, Greenland
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Greenland Ilulissat glaciers at fjord Disco Bay West Greenland
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Hunting and community sharing of a Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) by Inuit, Greenland
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Dried fish in front of a house, summer, Uummannaq, West Greenland, Greenland
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Large glaciers in the bay by the rocky shore in the light of the setting sun with fog over the [...]
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Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking on broken pack ice off the coast of Spitsbergen
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Arctic fox making his night rounds on the beach
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Large glaciers in the bay by the rocky shore in the light of the setting sun with fog over the water
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Polar bear (Ursus maritimus), animal mother with Two Cubs, North East Greenland Coast, Greenland, [...]
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Sailboat (old-grement) sailing among the icebergs at sunset, Makkoroplaap Nuua, Gyrfalcon mountain [...]
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Gigantesque iceberg avec arche dérivant dans les eaux du nord du Groenland, Savissivik, au coucher [...]
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Sunset over Scoresby Strait, Scoresbysund, Greenland
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Serac at sunset, a huge serac of a hundred meters long and 30 meters high has just detached from a [...]
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Rainbow over the hamlet of Stewart Island on Greenland's east coast
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Kayakers in front of an iceberg, East coast of Greenland
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Dwarf fireweed or river beauty willowherb local name Niviarsiaq (Epilobium latifolium), the [...]
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Typical fuel tanks of greenlandic towns. During winter no suppy is possible due to sea ice. The [...]
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Town Tasiilaq (Ammassalik), the biggest town and administrative center in East Greenland. North [...]
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The town Uummannaq in the northwest of Greenland, north of the polar circle. North America, [...]
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Skier in Nuuk fjord, Greenland
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Northern lights, in front Leif Erikson statue, Brattahlid, South Greenland, Greenland, North America
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Turquoise iceberg in Scoresby Sound, Greenland
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Aurora borealis, Cape Hoegh, north-east coast of Greenland
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Melting ice on shore. Landscape at the Sermilik (Sermiligaaq) icefjord in the area Ammassalik in [...]
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Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) in the hills of Cape Swainson, east coast of Greenland
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Sledge dogs howling at sunset, on the ice floes of the village of Ittoqqotoormiit in winter, [...]
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Sleeping dog sledding in snow Greenland ; Polaire night
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Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) occupying an abandoned den on a snow bank, Raffles Island, Liverpool [...]
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Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus) Female cautiously approaching the shore, Raffles Island, Liverpool Land [...]
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Bleached skull of a musk ox, Holmbugt, Kong Oscar Fjord, Northeast Greenland National Park, [...]
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Boy playing with a ball, Inuit settlement of Tiniteqilaaq, Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland, [...]