Greenland

President Donald Trump has predicted that Greenland will be under U.S. control by the time he leaves office in January 2029. Trump has fiercely pushed to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic since before he returned to the Oval Office. The globally unpopular move has helped strain America’s…

On Wednesday, Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. NASA will stream the eclipse live with views across the path and interviews with subject matter experts through a variety of platforms.…

A major Atlantic Ocean current is slowing, and the consequences could reach far beyond the Atlantic. New research from the University of California, Riverside suggests the change could strengthen powerful storms along the California coast while reducing snowfall over Greenland. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a vast…

Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, as the next total solar…

Topline A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe, but only to a narrow path across parts of eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain on Aug. 12. Only those inside that path — the moon’s dark central shadow — will experience totality. Everyone else across western Europe and parts…

In the frigid North Atlantic waters around Northeast Greenland National Park, researchers spotted something miraculous: an Arctic bobtail squid with her eggs. This, according to the findings published in Polar Biology, is the first time this species of squid has been spotted in the park. Arctic bobtail squid (Rossia moelleri)…

As the Greenland ice sheet melts, fresh water discharged into the ocean contributes to the weakening of key Atlantic currents. (Image credit: nikpal via Getty Images) Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. Sascha is a U.K.-based…

Topline The month’s new moon occurs at 5:43 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 14, but it is no ordinary reset of the lunar calendar. It’s the final new moon before a total solar eclipse on Wednesday, August 12, when the moon’s dark central shadow will sweep across eastern Greenland, western…

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw every American soldier from Europe unless NATO allies agree to hand over Greenland, reviving a dispute that has strained the alliance since the start of the year. Speaking to reporters before arriving in Turkey, Trump was first asked whether he planned to pull…

Because the Greenland shark lives in the dim depths of the ocean and is often infested with parasites that attach to its eyes, scientists believed the large, long-lived species to be functionally blind. But UC Irvine researcher Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk and colleagues have disproved this, challenging what is known about aging,…