Greenland, the world's largest island, is experiencing rapid climate change, with its melting ice sheet impacting global sea levels and weather patterns. Its strategic location and valuable resources make it a focal point of geopolitical competition, particularly between the United States and other nations.
Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate change s taking shape all over the planet.
Locked inside are valuable rare earth minerals needed for telecommunications, as well as uranium, billions of untapped barrels of oil and a vast supply of natural gas that used to be inaccessible but is becoming less so. If that ice melts, it would reshape coastlines across the globe and potentially shift weather patterns in such a dramatic manner that the threat was the basis of a Hollywood disaster movie.
It’s called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and it’s slowing down because more fresh water is being dumped into the ocean by melting ice in Greenland, Serreze said. Greenland is also changing color as it melts from the white of ice, which reflects sunlight, heat and energy away from the planet, to the blue and green of the ocean and land, which absorb much more energy, Holland said.
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