Bolder, Colorado
A major arctic science conference this week was arrested in fighting between US President Donald Trump, who says the United States should take over Greenland, green and Danish leaders, who say it should not.
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Greenland is an international research center for many scientists, including young researchers who admire through the island’s ice cover every summer, and measures how it melts and contributes to high levels of sea around the world.
Before a planned visit by US Vice President JD Vance to an American military base in Greenland this week, the Arctic Science Summit in Bulder, Colorado, canceled a major session on research in Greenland, which was scheduled to be held on March 28.
The conference organizers publicly did not mention the reason for the cancellation, but geopolitical tensions between the United States, where the meeting was held, and Greenland was in the air. More than 50 of the attendees were collected in a circle outside the scene directly on March 26 and took signs showing the red and white flag in Greenland, an independent autonomous region in Denmark.
“We would like to offer our support to our friends and colleagues in Greenland, especially at these times when they are very exhausting,” says Karim Hestens Nisensyoglu, a climate scientist at Bergen University in Norway.
Tension
Trump said that the United States “will have” Greenland either through a financial deal or through military power, noting the rare ground minerals on the island and its strategic location for national security and trade purposes. This position disturbed the scientific relations between the United States and Greenland. “We have had very good relationships with Greenland, and they had a real interest in working with the United States – these offensive and inappropriate offices are really destroyed,” says nearly two decades ago.
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A number of researchers from Greenland refused to talk to them nature At the conference, quoting political tensions.
In recent years, many international scientists traveling to Greenland have worked to conduct research to form a more strict and moral bond with societies and institutions there. Aurora Ruth, a student of high studies at the Scripps Oceanic Science Foundation in La Joula, California, who studies the straits in Greenland, says researchers will arrive and conduct “umbrella science” without partnership with any local person. It says Trump’s play in favor of Greenland has disturbed those improved ties. “You now have the current political policy, and this makes me embarrassed to be an American researcher.”