Gustaf Klarin

"Cold water and ice are very beneficial when cleaning up after an oil spill," says one researcher in Sweden.

Tourists are finding morbid interest in the world's changing cold climates.

Women reject the Arctic to a higher degree than men. This applies to Canada, Alaska and the northern parts of Sweden, Norway and Finland, but the greatest shortage of women is in northern Russia and in Greenland.

While fish prefer the increasingly warmer water around Greenland, other species in its seas are failing. Shrimp fishing in southern Greenland has had to close down.

Ocean temperatures around Greenland's coasts have risen sharply in recent years, luring several fish species common to the warmer coastal waters of Northern Europe, according to a new report.