Greenland Quest for Autonomy
Prime Minister Hans Enoksen, at a rally on the night before the vote: "Our problems are an inheritance from our days as a colony," Enoksen has said.
Greenland's capital city, Nuuk: starting next June, this is where the vast majority of decisions concerning Greenland will be made.
"Yes, we can": pro-autonomy residents borrowed a slogan from Barack Obama.
The pro-autonomy campaign was well-organized: in downtown Nuuk, organizers handed out armbands encouraging passers-by to vote "yes."
Older residents support the autonomy movement in a higher proportion than younger residents.
A fisherman in the town of Ilulissat. Social problems plague Greenland: poverty, suicide and low education are epidemic.
Participants at the Arctic Ocean Conference in Ilulissat, Greenland in May, 2008. There's a race to lay claim to undivided sections of the arctic: Greenland is hoping to profit from oil deposits.
Near Ilulissat in Greenland: glaciers around the island are melting at an alarming rate.
Icebergs -- this one in a bay off of Ammassalik Island -- are rapidly thawing as well.
As of now, only 20 percent of the island is not covered by ice.
Blue rivers are beginning to show throw the island's inland ice.
Summer in greenland: vegetation is spreading farther than it has for centuries.
