Ambassador insists his country would be forced to act if armed conflict broke out on the strategic-important polar island ...

Even after the war ended, American forces stayed on in Greenland. The Pituffik Space Base, once known as Thule Air Base, has ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

Threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex Greenland and a looming EU-U.S. trade war hang over Iceland’s EU membership ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

Since we were young, we've learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make up the seven continents, but a study published in the journal Gondwana ...

Donald Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to consider taking land from Denmark. What did the U.S. want last time and why?

Now, the idea of adding Greenland to the United States isn’t new, with American officials having had their eyes on the not-so-green island long before Trump first floated the idea in 2019.

The 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement provides a legal and historical basis for the ... The island’s proximity to North America — just a few hours’ flight from major U.S. cities ...

The Arctic Ocean, though smallest, significantly influences global climate and hosts unique wildlife. Surrounded by Eurasia, ...

However, they weren't the first Europeans to make the voyage to North America. After establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D., the Vikings reached ...

Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation from this flare caused a shortwave radio blackout. A map released by the ...