“The Arctic is warming much more than the rest of the world,” says climate researcher Wolfgang Schöner, former director of the Austrian Polar Research Institute. Experts estimate the impact of the rapid melting of ice on the global climate and sea levels to be enormous. In Greenland, US President Donald Trump’s takeover plans have shown how explosive the region’s geopolitical power is. “I think this is a narcissistic project by the US president,” says Kira Vinke. “But this region is a prime example of the changes that are coming our way.”
