A Global Perspective | 20 years of Al Jazeera English

The Inuit word for this place, for Gristfjord, is Aushituk, the place that never thaws, not anymore. There are FDLR fighters hidden in the tops of these hills. Meanwhile, the government troops are further down here in the valley. They stand very little chance of getting a job here, and so in the streams and rivers outside Abidjan, they toil every day. They are the few remaining people who've lived through a nuclear war, and they've just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But has the world learned the lessons of the catastrophic events of 1945? You may wonder how all of these people don't get lost in the jungle, something that is so easy to do. And the reason that they don't is that they're told to follow these markers. Illegal miners from different countries take advantage of this to carve out territories. They come prepared with tools, but also with weapons. We've just made it to Rashua. This is the worst affected area. Entire villages essentially completely wiped out. What they needed more help with from their government was digging people out from under the rubble. It's a journey about the need to find a greater sense of purpose in life and this is exactly what they hope to achieve. Incredible, absolutely. You're graceful. I like it. The scale of what we are witnessing only really becomes apparent once you take to the sky. Some people saying their home no longer feels like their home. It's adding to the question of whether this will all be worth it when the Olympics have packed up and left. Beneath Greenland, there are rich deposits of things like zinc, iron, uranium and graphite. And some of these deposits are the much sought after rare earth elements. The biggest challenge for this cultural event is climate change. Waters in the Ergung River has receded significantly over the years. It's psychological warfare, a noise meant to unnerve, to break people down. But the music teacher, Ahmed, has taken what was meant to torment and turned it into a song.