00:00For more than a thousand years, dogs have pulled sleds across the Arctic for Inuit,
00:06seal hunters and fishermen, but now they are being pulled over earth and rock.
00:12Greenlandic dog sled champion Georgian Christensen, from the town of Ilulisat,
00:18around 300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle,
00:22said it's the first time he can remember when there has been no snow or ice in the bay in
00:27January.
00:30Hundeslaget rammer meget, meget dårligt,
00:34fordi vi mister det der, vores rute eller stor bro,
00:44hvis der, fordi der, når det kommer havisen,
00:50og det vi føler, det er helt åbent til hele kysten.
00:55Hvor bestemmer vores kære hen?
00:56Men nu, der ingen havise.
01:00In the 1980s, winter temperatures in Ilulisat regularly hovered around minus 25 degrees Celsius,
01:08but nowadays sometimes it can be as warm as 10 degrees, Christensen said.
01:13The Inuit Circumpolar Council said Greenland's government had to financially support many families
01:20after sea ice failed to freeze sufficiently for hunting.
01:25The melting ice could reveal untapped deposits of critical minerals,
01:29which is why many Greenlanders believe that's why U.S. President Donald Trump
01:34turned their island into a geopolitical hotspot.
01:37Thank you very much.
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