What climate change means for Greenland’s traditional Inuit lifestyle and the world

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By EMMA BURROWS, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and KWIYEON HA

ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen’s closest friends were his stepfather’s sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was different. When he was bullied at school for his fair hair — an inheritance from the mainland Danish father he never knew — the dogs came to him.

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