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Climate Change Makes Arctic Strategic, Economic Hotspot

Associated Press

   TASIILAQ, GREENLAND -- From a helicopter, Greenland's brilliant white
   ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And
   the few people who live here -- its whole population wouldn't fill a
   football stadium -- are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and
   suicide.

   One scientist called it the "end of the planet."

   When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of buying Greenland,
   it was met with derision, seen as an awkward and inappropriate approach
   of an erstwhile ally.

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