Greenland

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…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent. 52-year-old retiree Katrine Petersen poses for a photo in front of a painting at The Greenlandic House in central Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/James Brooks) 52-year-old retiree…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s, according to an independent...Read More

Cruising Explore Greenland’s frozen frontier on the world’s only luxury icebreaker — where polar bears roam, Champagne flows and the weather rules all 07 September 2025 - 00:00 By Brian Berkman Only the ice and weather decide. .. There’s never been a more important time to support independent media. From World…

One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the surrounding environment: Researchers can analyze the light that’s scattered when a volcanic eruption or tsunami jostles…

Monika Luabeya Sep 03, 2025 Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland. This image is the NASA Science Image of the Month for September 2025.…