The Pentagon’s move to shift military oversight of Greenland to U.S. Northern Command aligns with Trump’s desire to take ...

We need Greenland very badly.” With those words on NBC in February, President Trump reopened a discussion spanning over a ...

The Pentagon's move to shift its oversight of Greenland under U.S. Northern Command aligns with President Donald Trump’s pledge to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.

Climate change, which has opened sea routes, has increased Greenland’s importance. The six maps below show how geography and geopolitics ... and eastern shores (see map 1).

The first thing you need to do to understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, is to look at a map. “Geography is ... As for Greenland, the idea of buying it from Denmark ...

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., declared on CNN Monday that the average middle American probably has no idea where Greenland is on a world map. Appearing on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Coons made the ...

Contrary to the map ... of geography class, but even once we’ve learned the truth, the errors on our mental maps tend to persist. One reason for this may be that our conceptions of the world ...

Newly accessible sea routes are transforming the world’s political geography. The US government ... of what had seemed like a settled world map. Greenland, an 836,000-square-mile island mostly ...

With a landmass three times that of Texas, but with a population—just 57,000—able to fit comfortably inside an NFL stadium, Greenland has long been a forgotten outpost. No more. The world's ...

creating a symbolic and operational split between those territories and Greenland. “From the perspective of geography, the move makes some sense,” said one of the people familiar.