On this day last year, 17 January 2024, a study revealed that Greenland was losing 30 million tonnes of ice an hour, 20 per cent more than previously thought.

FAREWELL TO TARWATHIE (Fareweel Tae Tarwathie, Roud number 2562), words written by George Scroggie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, around 1850. The piece is part of the collection The Peasant's Lyre.

Our ship she is rigged and ready to sail,
Our crew they are anxious to follow the whale.
Where the icebergs float, and the stormy winds blow;
Where the land and the ocean is covered with snow.

The cold clime of Greenland Is barren and bare;
No seed time nor harvest is ever known there.
The birds here sing sweetly on mountain and dale;
But the songsters are mute in the land of the whale.