Greenland

Foreign Affairs Greenland has been a coveted location throughout history. The author Elizabeth Buchanan explains why. During his first term, President Donald Trump floated the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland from Denmark. Media coverage focused on the Danes’ outraged response without clarifying how Greenland’s dependence on Denmark came to…

A new study analyzing chemical traces in the growth rings of clam shells reinforces growing concerns about the stability of a key North Atlantic Ocean current that helps keep the global climate livable.  The findings, published on Thursday in Science Advances, examined changes in the ocean south of Greenland during…

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old environment in Greenland. (Image credit: Getty Images) Scientists have been using ancient DNA to investigate questions about extinct animals since 1984, when researchers recovered two pieces of DNA from a museum specimen of a quagga , a zebra-like species that went…

Looking for a new survival thriller to get excited about? The trailer for Greenland 2: Migration, starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roman Griffin Davis, has just dropped – and it's already creating major buzz among fans. Picking up from the first film, Greenland 2: Migration explores the aftermath of…

Politics Canada and Greenland already had plenty in common before facing threats of annexation from the White House — but all that attention could make for a timely reason to strengthen a key relationship. CBC's Emma Godmere traveled to Greenland’s capital of Nuuk to hear from residents about being in…

Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight path planning. This unique data also has value beyond the Earth as a celestial roadmap for using the same instrumentation to monitor…

The Garrity family faces an apocalyptic road trip where they dodge more meteors, a radiation storm and giant tidal wave, among other fresh dangers, in the trailer for Greenland 2: Migration, the sequel to the 2020 Greenland disaster pic. Five years after an initial comet strike decimated much of the…

When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving. Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he grew up in Germany—but he had become obsessed with the…

Denmark's prime minister has apologised to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained relations with their former colonial power. Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with intrauterine devices (IUDs) without their knowledge…

Democracy Dies in Darkness In Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will apologize formally for the mistreatment of thousands of Inuit girls and women who were given invasive contraception without consent. Updated September 24, 2025 Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, left, talks to women at the Katuaq cultural center in…