Published TUESDAY March 18, 2025: 'GREENLAND: Alcohol And Arctic Ice' by ZUMA Press award winning photographer David Tesinsky: Greenland with only sixty thousand inhabitants and huge mineral wealth, is the largest island in the world and a self-ruling Danish territory which has recently undergone a national election, seen protests seeking autonomy and become the target of President Trump, who wants to somehow ''get'' the territory for the US. According the International Journal of Health alcohol is the single most important public health challenge in Greenland, including high rates of binge drinking and harmful consumption, with approximately 40 percent of the population showing these patterns. The Government of Greenland, known as Naalakkersuisut with WHO has launched a project to develop recommendations for a new national alcohol policy, addressing a long-running public health challenge. Welcome to 'GREENLAND: Alcohol And Arctic Ice'
© zReportage.com Issue #981 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY March 18, 2025: 'GREENLAND: Alcohol And Arctic Ice' by ZUMA Press award winning photographer David Tesinsky: Greenland with only sixty thousand inhabitants and huge mineral wealth, is the largest island in the world and a self-ruling Danish territory which has recently undergone a national election, seen protests seeking autonomy and become the target of President Trump, who wants to somehow ''get'' the territory for the US. According the International Journal of Health alcohol is the single most important public health challenge in Greenland, including high rates of binge drinking and harmful consumption, with approximately 40 percent of the population showing these patterns. The Government of Greenland, known as Naalakkersuisut with WHO has launched a project to develop recommendations for a new national alcohol policy, addressing a long-running public health challenge. Welcome to 'GREENLAND: Alcohol And Arctic Ice'

Sea gulls fly near public housing apartment block above the port in Nuuk, capital of Greenland. When Greenland was still a colony, the United States under then-President Harry Truman sought to buy the island as a strategic asset during the Cold War for 100 million USD in gold, but Copenhagen declined to sell.
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A Nuuk resident wearing a fur hat enjoys a drink in a pub after work. Alcohol exposure and youth suicides are severe public health issues in Greenland. More than half of young women in Greenland, from 15 to 24 years, had possible alcohol problems in 2018 according to a CDC report.
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A view of Nuuk from the harbor in the evening with snow capped peaks towering behind. Greenland faces a significant public health challenge with problematic alcohol use, including high rates of binge drinking and potential harmful consumption, with approximately 40 percent of the population showing these patterns.
© October 5, 2023, Nuuk, Greenland: A view of Nuuk from the harbor in the evening with snow capped peaks towering behind. Greenland faces a significant public health challenge with problematic alcohol use, including high rates of binge drinking and potential harmful consumption, with approximately 40 percent of the population showing these patterns. (Credit Image:© David Tesinsky/ZUMA Press Wire

MIKKEL enjoying a smoke outside a pub in Nuuk, he came to Greenland from Denmark with a friend eight months ago to work on a construction site for 'good pay.' After work they go to drink and they drink a lot. In their opinion, there is not so much to live for except for the good times in a pub with other friends.
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The nightlife scene at a bar in Nuuk. Alcohol exposure and youth suicides are severe public health issues in Greenland. More than half of young women in Greenland, from 15 to 24 years, had possible alcohol problems in 2018 according to the CDC.
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A man drinks a beer in front of a local cemetery in Nuuk. Greenland has only sixty thousand inhabitants and huge mineral wealth. Trump also cast an eye on the Dutch territory, and that is why the regional elections on the island immediately became of global interest.
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Nuuk locals are smoking on a covered deck outside a pub at sunset afterwork. Greenland faces a significant public health challenge with problematic alcohol use, including high rates of binge drinking and potential harmful consumption.
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In Nuuk, most of the electricity is produced by hydro power. 70 percent of Greenland's energy is produced by renewable sources. The rest is produced by oil burned plants.
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A woman sleeps beside a table covered with empty beer bottles, the atmosphere in a typical pub in Nuuk after 8pm.
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A mother and daughter feed the birds at a pond in Nuuk. Greenland, the largest island in the world and a self-ruling Danish territory has recently undergone a national election and seen protests seeking autonomy from Denmark.
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Nuuk residents help a friend who drank too much to get home safely from a pub in Nuuk. Alcohol exposure and youth suicides are severe public health issues in Greenland. More than half of young women in Greenland, from 15 to 24 years, had possible alcohol problems in 2018 according to the CDC.
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Kids playground and apartments in a mostly empty city. Greenland has only sixty thousand inhabitants and 20,000 of those live in Nuuk, making it one fo the smallest world capitals. Alcohol exposure and youth suicides are severe public health issues in Greenland.
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Residents gather to socialize and drink beer after work in a typical pub in Nuuk after 8pm. A small settlement with cold empty streets and warm welcoming locals in the pubs, Nuuk is the capital and most populous city in Greenland. Alcohol exposure and youth suicides are severe public health issues on the Island.
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Empty public benches on a bay overlooking the Arctic sea in Nuuk. Greenland faces a significant public health challenge with problematic alcohol use, including high rates of binge drinking and potential harmful consumption, with approximately 40 percent of the population showing these patterns.
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A man sleeps on a table covered in empty beer bottles at a pub in Nuuk. Greenland and WHO/Europe, have launched a project to develop recommendations for a new national alcohol policy, addressing a long-running public health challenge.
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Public housing apartments in Nuuk sit on cliffs above the port. There are no roads in and out of Greenland's capitol Nuuk, only boat and flight travel options.
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MIKKEL and RASMUS smoke a marijuana joint with the bartender outside a local pub as they all know each other well in the small community of Nuuk. Both men came to Greenland from Denmark eight months ago to work on a construction site. After work they go to drink and they drink a lot. In their opinion, there is not so much to live for except for the good times in a pub with other friends.
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Snow capped peaks are seen from a boat leaving Nuuk during sunset. Nuuk is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark where alcohol exposure and youth suicides are severe public health issues.
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