In Ilulissat, Greenland, fast climate changes are altering a way of life — for better and worse. As icebergs melt, fishing with sled dogs on sturdy winter glaciers is no longer safe.

Six Ilulissat sights. Besides the famed icebergs of Ilulissat, you’ll notice: • No trees!The land is bedrock and ice. In summer, you’ll see wildflowers, sedges and small bushes.

Located on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice ...

Scientists and tourists visit a glacier threatened by global warming. Sept. 9, 2007— -- Scientists packed the C-130 taking us to Greenland — the vast and wild land that now attracts ice ...

Cortsen lives in Ilulissat, a small town of fewer than 5,000 people just north of the Arctic Circle. Its glinting white and sapphire blue icebergs and scenic fjords are among its most popular ...

Greenland's spectacular Ilulissat Icefjord is the highlight of any voyage above the Arctic Circle. Silversea's Silver Wind takes you right up to the massive icebergs that tumble out of it.

In Ilulissat, Greenlandic for "icebergs," a new airport is being built for large transatlantic aircraft. Towering construction cranes dot the rocky promontory on which the town − population ...

In 1909, Ilulissat was producing just one or two of these huge icebergs each year. The iceberg that sank Titanic would have been up to a mile long, displacing around a billion tonnes of seawater.

The sunset reflects off of an iceberg in Ilulissat. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR. The sunset reflects on ocean waves seen from Jan Cortsen's boat in Ilulissat, Greenland on Feb. 18, 2025.