Greenland

Look under almost every element of President Trump's second-term foreign policy — from the trade war with China, to peace in Ukraine, to annexing Greenland — and you'll find critical minerals.Why it matters: China has the U.S. in a bind when it comes to supplies of rare earths and other…

With NATO’s Arctic footprint expanding, Denmark is raising its military commitment to a territory seen as crucial to security — and focusing east. Author of the article: Published Oct 31, 2025 8 minute read s288tmpf)baqp2yi0{a(0s8t_media_dl_4.png International Institute for Stra Article content (Bloomberg) — Private Mads Hansen acknowledges that it can…

This happens due to plate tectonics and movements in the bedrock, caused by the large ice sheets on top melting and reducing pressure on the subsurface, according to a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. The pressure is easing both because large amounts of ice…

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…