High rise flats in the town of Nuuk, the capitol city of Greenland, 24% of the island's population live in this coastal town on the South West of Greenland. These flats known as The Bloks, house much of the population of Nuuk.
Greenpeace and an independent NASA-funded scientist completed measurements of melt lakes
on the Greenland Ice Sheet that show its vulnerability to warming
temperatures.The measurements are the last scheduled activity as the
Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise wraps up its two-month expedition to document the impacts of climate change on Greenland's ice sheet and
glaciers.