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People in Southern Greenland are welcoming climate change for the opportunities it will give them to grow their own vegetables, like potatoes.
But in Nuuk’s corridors of power, the movers and shakers are anticipating that climate change will allow Greenland to exploit its once inaccessible natural resources, and perhaps allow the territory the financial independence to become completely independent from Denmark.
For a sense of the town where these decisions will be made, check out our photo gallery: “Nuuk, Greenland – People & Places”
Ice in the water outside of Nuuk, Greenland. (Eilís Quinn/Eye on the Arctic) (Eilís Quinn/Eye on the Arctic)
Masses of ice are washed up onto Nuuk
Sea ice. Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: Eilis Quinn.
Sea ice. Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: Eilis Quinn.
The old town in Greenland’s captial city of Nuuk. (Eilís Quinn/Eye on the Arctic)
Cranes in downtown Nuuk.
A file photo of Nuuk, Greenland. (Eilís Quinn/Eye on the Arctic)
Skyline in Nuuk, Greenland. The premiers of Greenland and Nunavut, Canada met in Iqaluit this week to discuss Arctic development. Photo: Eilís Quinn
Nuuk is the capital of Greenland. Fifteen thousand very kind and generous souls who speak English, Danish and Greenlandic, the Inuit dialect there. 87% of the population of Denmark is Inuit. Photo: Marie Wadden
View of Nuuk, old town. Photo by Eilís Quinn
Sun sets in Nuuk
Annaassisitta Oqaluffia (Nuuk Cathedral), located in downtown Nuuk. Missionaries across the Arctic used different writing systems to translate the Bible into local dialects. Photo by Eilís Quinn.
View of the old town in Nuuk, Greenland. a tourist draw in Greenland (Eilís Quinn / Eye on the Arctic)
Port in Nuuk’s Nuussuaq district.
Nuuk’s mountain landmark, Sermitsiaq, at sunset.
Port in Nuuk’s Nuussuaq district.
Main shopping centre in downtown Nuuk.
Port in Nuuk’s Nuussuaq district. (Eilis Quinn)
Katuaq – Nuuk’s cultural centre. The architecture was inspired by the Northern Lights.
Nuuk’s ever-exapanding Nuussuaq neighbourhood.
View from Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland. (Eilis Quinn)
Waterfront by Nuuk’s Old Town.
Sermitsiaq – Nuuk’s famed mountain landmark.
Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland. (Eilis Quinn)
Poul Krarup, editor-in-chief of Sermitsiaq, one of Greenland’s two national newspapers.
Downtown Nuuk.
Fire drill at Nuuk’s Old Port.
Firefighters in Nuuk’s Old Port discuss their training drill.
Sun setting on downtown Nuuk.
In the 1950s, Inuit brought to work in Nuuk’s cod factories were settled in these apartment blocks.
Inuit families were often split up when settled in these buildings by the Danish government.
Nuuk faces a serious housing crisis. Many people still live in dilapidated apartment blocks.
Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.
Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.
Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.
Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.
Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.
Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."
