temperatures are making glaciers and sea ice melt. like in greenland most of the island still has ice cover hundreds of meters thick but that s set to change one geologist thinks that s not necessarily bad for greenland future. travelling through southern greenland it s easy to understand why the vikings called the island green it has hills meadows lakes and rivers the endless ice starts further north. mina grows in calls this landscape home he was born in greenland his great grandparents used to hunt here mir comes to. the prize winning geologist from the natural history museum in copenhagen often travels to the north he says greenland is an open book that just. asked to be read.
greenland further south even strawberries in for tito s grow but it won t be enough to create a large agricultural sector in the future. you have to be realistic about climate change it has good and bad aspects here in greenland like everywhere in the world where part of nature when it changes we have to make the best of it. that s exactly what he s trying to do. rosing is both optimistic and pragmatic about his country which is striving for independence from denmark. for that the country s economy has to be able to stand on its own two feet. what should we as a society live from greenland s nature is pristine and almost infinite it has enormous numbers of fish and very worth is steadily increasing in contrast to oil which we should leave where it is. the great torrent of sludge here behind me is
through this glacial sludge is from rock crushed by the ice it s interesting because it can be transported anywhere in the world where there s a lack of nutrients in the tropics and some tropics where most people live the soil has a massive shortage of nutrients. in their stuff. the melt water transports the finely crushed mark a trickle becomes a stream a river turns into a torrent leaving behind a new landscape. rosing estimates that around a billion tons of minerals reach the coastal areas of greenland in this way every year. enough nutrients to help feed the world. on the way back from his hike mimic rosing bumps into an old acquaintance more to new. grows herbs in lettuce and greenhouses climate change is making itself felt