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What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.
Climate scientists are watching walls of ice flatten and disappear. One compared visiting a melting glacier to calling on a friend with a terminal illness. “You have to have the strength to say goodbye,” he said.Photographs by Ragnar Axelsson for The New Yorker
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