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In front of a floor-to-ceiling glass door in the living room of Najannguac Dalgård Christensen, necklaces with amulets carved out of bone and seal claws dangle from a coat hanger.

Healing old wounds: The revival of Greenlandic Inuit tattoos in Denmark

Lifestyle & Belief

Greenland’s Indigenous peoples once wore bold face tattoos that carried deep spiritual and cultural significance. But during the centuries of Denmark’s colonial rule, the Inuit tradition of getting face and hand tattoos disappeared. One Inuk tattoo artist is now reviving a piece of Inuit heritage for community members living in Denmark.

Two people are shown in shadow running toward an ambulance with red brake lights on in the rain.

Brazil exceeds 4,000 daily COVID-19 deaths, India sees record infections

Top of The World
A small crowd of people are shown examining green ballots next to rows of boxes.

Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election

Politics
Remnants of ancient Greenland tundra were preserved in soil beneath the ice sheet.

Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change

Climate Change
A polar bear is shown in the distance standing on a piece of ice among a large grouping of flat floating ice pieces.

How the Trump administration’s climate denial left its mark on the Arctic Council

A vast, white sheet of ice

Rapid ice melt and sea-level rise will be part of our global future — no matter what

Climate Change

The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting at alarming rates due to climate change and will continue to do so for decades — even if the Paris climate agreement goals are met.

A woman is shown wearing a red shirt and walking with a crate next to a heavily damaged home.

Earth’s hottest decade on record marked by extreme storms, deadly wildfires

Climate Change

As global warming intensified, people and ecosystems felt the climate changing, from the hurricane-ravaged coasts to the fast-warming Arctic.

Underland cave light

A new book explores ‘Underland,’ the deep, dark areas below the Earth

Books

For nearly a decade, author Robert Macfarlane has been venturing into ice caves, exploring underwater rivers and crawling through catacombs. His latest book, “Underland: A Deep Time Journey,” documents these travels and explores the human relationship with the “deep time” of down below.

A red helicopter is shown landed on the Greenland ice sheet with team of three professors and three students unload their gear.

PHOTOS: Up close and personal with Greenland’s massive ice sheet

The Big Melt

Researchers on Greenland’s ice sheet are trying to find out more about our planet and the future implications with rising seas. It’s also spectacularly beautiful and surreal.

Three people walk across ground covered in ice and snow as the horizon stretches behind them.

As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists push to learn ‘how fast’

The Big Melt

The Greenland ice sheet has long helped cool the world and keep sea levels stable. But now it’s melting, and scientists are trying to learn as much as they can, as fast as they can.