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This Arctic town wants to make renewable energy work at the top of the world

Partnering with a northern settlement in Greenland, researchers are designing wind and solar devices that can survive and thrive in extreme conditions.
  1. Freda Kreier
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For Toku Oshima, a hunter from Greenland, the quest to bring renewable energy to her hometown of Qaanaaq is not just a fight against climate change — it’s a fight for cultural survival.

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Nature 605, 406-407 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01189-x

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  • Correction 09 May 2022: An earlier version of this story referred to Dartmouth University in New Hampshire. It is Dartmouth College.

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