As Trump threatens to take over Greenland, its melting ice caps could hold a solution to our clean energy future

Get the Full StoryModern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China s stranglehold on the market?

Greenland s massive cap of ice, containing enough fresh water to raise sea levels by 23 feet, is in serious trouble. Between 2002 and 2023, Greenland lost 270 billion tons of frozen water each year as winter snowfall failed to compensate for ever-fiercer summer temperatures. That s a significant contributor of sea level rise globally, which is now at a quarter of an inch a year.But underneath all that melting ice is something the whole world wants: the rare earth elements that make modern society and the clean energy revolution possible. That could soon turn Greenland, which has a population size similar to that of Casper, Wyoming, into a mining mecca.

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