Scientists learn to better understand the movement of Greenland, as it was slowly pushed over the hotspot that is now located under neighboring Iceland. Nothing stands still over geologic time, and even the biggest land masses are constantly being reshaped by Earth.

President Donald Trump’s talk about America controlling Greenland have put this Arctic territory under the spotlight at a time when it’s opening up to tourism. This is what visitors can expect if they make the trip.

Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally that has rejected Trump’s overtures. Greenland’s own government also opposes U.S. designs on the island, saying the people of Greenland will decide their own future.

Singer Björk says she supports Greenland’s “fight for independence” amid President Trump’s rising threats to take over the territory. “I wish all greenlanders

On the heels of the US capture of Venezuelan leader Nícolas Maduro, President Donald Trump has ramped up his rhetoric around his desire to acquire Greenland, once again raising the prospect of military intervention,

In 1991, the Associated Press revealed that the administration of President Harry S. Truman had, in 1946, secretly pitched the idea of offering Denmark $100 million in gold or, alternatively, to swap oil-rich portions of Alaska’s Point Barrow district in exchange for parts of Greenland that the U.S. felt it needed for military purposes.

How the Guardian reported the US military presence and establishment of airbases in the former Danish colony and county

Gigantic blocks of sculpted ice cram into the Ilulissat Icefjord, all queuing to burst out in the open waters of Disko Bay, when a loud cracking sound indicated that another frozen colossus had just broken free.

Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said ...