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Why Greenland's melting ice cap threatens humanity, and could serve Trump

An iceberg melting in Scoresby Fjord, eastern Greenland. © AFP - OLIVIER MORIN

As the White House looks to take control of Greenland, US President Donald Trump is eyeing not just a strategic foothold in the Arctic but the territory's vast underground resources. While the melting of the island's glaciers could make land and minerals easier to exploit, it could also wipe hundreds of thousands of cities off the map.

Greenland is vast, and highly coveted. Covering some 2 million square kilometres, it is almost four times the size of France.

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