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UPDATED: Left-wing party wins Greenland election, opposes big mining project

Greenland's left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit party pledged its opposition to a large rare earth mining project on Wednesday after winning a parliamentary election with more than a third of the votes.…

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Greenland holds election closely watched by global mining industry

Greenland held a parliamentary election today that could help decide the fate of vast deposits of rare earth metals which international companies want to exploit. The Arctic island of 56,000 people, which former…

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40 million more people at risk of flooding as Greenland loses ice ‘seven times faster than in 1990s’

Greenland's ice is melting seven times faster than it was in the 1990s, and at much greater speeds than current predictions, according to a new study. It came as another…

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Greenland’s Humboldt Glacier exposes layers of ice from ancient climate periods

A handout photo made available by NASA shows an aerial view of a lake bounded to the left by Washington Land, a deglaciated peninsula that juts into the Kane Basin,…

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