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A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced back and forth for nine days.
2013 - Greenland ends the territory's 25-year ban on the mining of radioactive materials such as uranium, leading to a boom in mineral resource exports. 2021 - Greenland bans all new oil and gas ...
17 June – the 2023 Greenland landslide and megatsunami caused a significant portion of land to collapse near the town of Nuugaatsiaq, [2] leaving four people dead, and leading to the evacuation of Nuugaatsiaq, Illorsuit and Niaqornat. [3]
Greenland's per capita disposable income is the lowest in the Arctic other than Russia's, and less than one third that of the American state of Alaska. [10] GDP per capita is close to the average for European economies, but the economy is critically dependent upon substantial support from the Danish government, which supplies about half the revenues of the self-rule government, which in turn ...
Gad also said, however, that polls over the past few decades have consistently shown the majority of Greenlanders want independence from Denmark for reasons connected to its dark colonial past and ...
According to the European Environmental Agency "the cumulative ice loss from Greenland from 1992 to 2015 was 3 600 Gt (Gigatonnes) and contributed to global sea level rise by approximately 10 mm." [13] The mass loss of Greenland over 2009-2018 was likely more than seven times higher than over 1992-2001. [14]
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