A NASA Gulfstream jet captures the melting icebergs and ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland on July 19. During the summer, unusually warm weather triggered rapid ice melting in northern Greenland amounting to about 6 billion tons of water per day between July 15 to July 17. Kerem Yucel/VCG

An iceberg that ‘calved,’ or split, from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier floats in the Ilulissat Icefjord in Ilulissat, Greenland in September 2021. Heatwaves triggered two major melt events in late July and mid-August that year, according to a National Snow and Ice Data Center report. Photo: Mario Tama/VCG

Crumbling ice from the Apusiajik glacier near Kulusuk on the southeastern coast of Greenland. Icebergs and ice sheets around the Arctic region are the early victims of rising temperatures. The 2021 Arctic Report Card shows the region has warmed at a faster pace compared to the planet as a whole. Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/VCG

An explosion at an exploration site of the company Greenland Anorthosite Mining in Greenland in September 2021. Greenland’s melting crisis has drawn wealthy investors including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates to invest in efforts to obtain rare minerals, under the island’s melting glaciers, that can help power electric vehicles. Photo: Hannibal Hanschke/IC Photo

Floating ice at the main harbor in Ilulissat in September 2021. Photo: Mario Tama/VCG

Polar bears walk on ice floes in Greenland in June 2004. Scientists discovered an undocumented subpopulation of polar bears living in southeast Greenland on June 16. Photo: VCG

A person water skis in Disko Bay near icebergs which calved from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier in Ilulissat in September 2021. Photo: Mario Tama/VCG

An image from the 1950s of an Inuit hunter aiming his weapon. People first set foot on the island around 4-5,000 years ago. More than six Inuit cultures have immigrated there. Photo: VCG

A woman pushes a pram along a walkway in Disko Bay in Ilulissat on June 27. According to the U.N., more than 56,000 people are living on the island. Photo: Odd Andersen/VCG

A cemetery in Ilulissat in 2021. Greenland has seen 5 trillion tons of ice melt over the past 15 years, enough to increase global sea levels by nearly an inch, NASA reported last year. Photo: Mario Tama/VCG