On Thin Ice

3192 Decade of Change Single Image

How melting ice changes one country’s way of life.  The centuries-old traditional lifestyle enjoyed by Greenland’s hunters is now under threat.  Albert Lukassen’s world is melting around him.  When this 64-year-old Inuit man was young, he could hunt by dogsled on the frozen Uummannaq Fjord, on the west coast of Greenland, until June.  This photo shows him there in April.  All the photographs for this story were taken on the fjord.

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