This article appeared in the April 07, 2021 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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A vote for the environment

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People line up to vote in Nuuk, Greenland, on April 6, 2021. The early parliamentary election focused in part on whether the semi-autonomous Danish territory should allow international companies to mine the island's substantial deposits of rare-earth metals. In the end, the Community of the People party (Inuit Ataqatigiit), which opposes mining, beat the Forward (Siumut) party, which has held the majority almost continuously since 1979.

This article appeared in the April 07, 2021 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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