World News

https://archive.ph/sgNOd#selection-1157.0-1157.598

In recent years, many international scientists who travel to Greenland to conduct research had worked to form a tighter, more ethical bond with the communities and institutions there. It used to be that researchers would arrive and conduct ‘parachute science’ without partnering with anyone local, says Aurora Roth, a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who studies fjords in Greenland. Trump’s play for Greenland has undermined those improvements, she says. “Now you have the current geopolitics, and it makes me embarrassed to be a US researcher.”