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KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touched down Wednesday on Greenland’s rocky coast for two days of talks on the Arctic, as the Obama administration seeks to draw fresh attention to the rapidly accelerating loss of sea ice and surging interest in the region’s natural resources.
Rapid warming above the Arctic Circle has led to shorter winters and a dramatic thinning of Arctic ice in the past two decades, and new scientific data suggest that the rate of polar melting has accelerated far beyond what scientists had forecast a few years ago.
Greenland is also confronting new development pressures by companies racing to claim natural resources exposed by the retreating ice.
