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00:12 - This remote village in Eastern Greenland
00:37 is 500 kilometers from the nearest human settlement.
00:41 At the mouth of the largest fjord system on the planet,
00:45 cargo ships visit only once a year
00:47 with supplies for its 300 residents.
00:51 Locals therefore live deeply intertwined
00:53 with the natural world,
00:55 relying on meat provided by Inuit hunters
00:58 to survive the months-long polar night.
01:00 But as rising temperatures weaken the ice
01:04 and reduce winter snowfall,
01:06 hunting is getting harder and harder.
01:08 Glaciers, which locals rely on for drinking water,
01:12 are also slowly melting away.
01:15 - Making water is maybe a problem in the future
01:18 because of lake where we get the water from
01:23 for the whole city back in the fields.
01:28 It's laying beyond a water glacier,
01:33 but it's melting, so maybe in a few years,
01:37 it's gone.
01:38 It can be a problem.
01:40 - Greenland's ice sheets may hold 1/12
01:44 of the world's freshwater,
01:46 enough to raise the sea level up seven meters
01:49 if they were to completely melt.
01:51 Scientists are rushing to the area
01:53 to understand the situation before it's too late.
01:56 - You hear about the global warming,
01:59 but here, you see it.
02:02 That's the main point.
02:03 So people who are living here every day
02:07 will come often like us.
02:08 We see the glacier.
02:10 We can see from a mission to another
02:12 what is the impact of the global warming.
02:15 Here, it's really the laboratory of the climate change.
02:20 - The scientists are protected from polar bears
02:22 by an armed escort,
02:23 but it's not their prints they're here to investigate.
02:27 What they're looking for is much smaller,
02:29 a microscopic algae known as glacier blood.
02:33 It was only formally identified for the first time in 2019,
02:37 but is already having an unprecedented effect on the ice.
02:41 The remoteness and extreme conditions
02:58 of the Scoresby Fjord
02:59 means it's one of the least studied locations
03:02 on the planet.
03:03 They're not the only ones arriving.
03:24 Around 60 vessels came this summer to the region,
03:27 carrying tourists curious to get an insight
03:30 into the local way of life.
03:32 - Always wanted to come to the Arctic and Greenland,
03:36 something remote.
03:38 It's something that for me
03:39 is a once in a lifetime experience.
03:43 - Some view tourism as a way of bringing funds to the area,
03:46 but others are concerned that it could destroy
03:48 what the travelers came here to see,
03:50 one of the last surviving Inuit hunting communities.
03:54 - One week ago, there was hunters out there.
03:58 They trying to cut now is,
04:01 but there was a couple of ships going into them.
04:06 People from around the world
04:10 have a need to show some respect for the hunters.
04:14 It's okay when they come to the domain,
04:18 researching the domain.
04:20 That's not a problem with me.
04:22 But the problem with the hunting place,
04:26 when they come and make a machine gun,
04:28 that's not okay for hunters.
04:33 - And it's not just the increase in marine traffic
04:37 that is worrying the community.
04:39 Temperatures in the region are increasing
04:41 up to four times faster than the global average,
04:44 posing a direct threat to the Inuit way of life.
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