Melting glacier erodes Greenland tourism

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Residents of Ilulissat, the town on Greenland's western coast famed for the majestic icebergs that glide through its fjord nearly choked on their morning coffee as they read the news: the town's biggest attraction was melting away.

The Groenlands Posten newspaper sent locals into a tizzy when it a few weeks ago described how the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, one of the most active glaciers in the world, had receded by more than 5km in the past two years.

"There is a risk that the glacier will stop calving into the icefjord," it said, using the term which normally describes a cow giving birth but is also used by scientists to describe how a piece of a glacier breaks off and forms an iceberg.

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