Nature: Greenland’s residents have voted overwhelmingly to take a step closer to full independence. The move towards gaining the full status of ‘country’ has been spurred not just by feelings of national pride, many say, but by climate change. Greenland has long been an administrative division of Denmark, with powers of home-rule in areas such as health-care and education since 1979. Many have pushed for further economic and foreign-policy independence, but this has been hampered by the fact …