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Donald Trump isn’t Greenland’s only problem these days, warming temperatures are also a cause for growing concern. As well, a question in today’s edition: Who should own Greenland anyway?

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For this week’s deeper dive, a closer look at the island that has risen to new popularity this year.

The Globe’s and Mail’s Europe Correspondent Paul Waldie has spent some time in Greenland alongside photographer Siegfried Modola.

During a trip earlier this month, they saw that instead of bundling up from head to toe to ward off frigid temperatures typical of this time of year, people in Nuuk were enjoying brilliant sunshine and shedding their hats and gloves.

According to preliminary figures from the Danish Meteorological Institute, Nuuk just experienced its warmest January on record.

“Climate change is already clearly visible on Greenland,” Jacob Hoyer, the head of Denmark’s National Centre for Climate Research, told Reuters. “From the records we can see that it is warming four times faster than the mean temperature hike in the world.”

And although all the new attention has brought a wave of tourism to the island, it has also brought new challenges. It is a place of raw beauty and hard logistics.

On the ground, Paul spoke to locals and heard that the warmer weather has already had an impact in Nuuk and across the island.

The unusual weather has forced some fishers to change how they catch cod, halibut and red fish. The bare ground has also meant some tour operators had to start cancelling snowmobile excursions. Outside the capital, the warm weather forced officials to postpone the annual Musk Ox hunt.

Aside from the concerns of warming temperatures, the U.S. President’s threats about purchasing Greenland as a strategic asset continue to loom over residents. Denmark asserts its legal sovereignty over the island.

But nearly 90 per cent of Greenland’s 57,000 population are Inuit. And for the Inuit people, who have lived there for centuries, no one truly owns the Arctic land.

The concept that ownership is shared collectively is central to the Inuit identity, they say. It has survived 300 years of colonization and is written into law: People can own houses, but not the land beneath them.

Rakel Kristiansen, from a family of shamanic practitioners, said Inuit people saw themselves as temporary guardians of the land. “In our understanding, owning land is the wrong question,” she said. “The question should be who is responsible for the land. The land existed before us, and it will exist after us.”