Greenland

Donald Trump’s repeated aggression toward Greenland could soon expand the European Union’s membership. Denizens of Greenland’s closest neighbor, Iceland, are currently weighing the possibility of joining the continental alliance, The New York Times reported Friday. “The Greenland crisis definitely hit a nerve,” Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told the Times in…

With a lifespan that pushes 500 years, the Greenland shark is the longest-living vertebrate we know of. That means there could be Greenland sharks alive today that swam in the waters Hernando de Soto sailed on his voyage to the Americas—just at much higher latitudes. These sharks also have massive…

Follow the total solar eclipse with the European Space Agency (ESA), in person or online. WEBWIRE – Tuesday, May 26, 2026 On 12 August 2026, a solar eclipse will be visible across parts of Europe and the north Atlantic. The path of totality will cross Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a…

MANILA, Philippines — Marinel Garciano dislikes winter, and that’s tough when it lasts nine months in Ilulissat, Greenland. But she has no regrets about leaving the Philippines to give her children opportunities. Her family is among the roughly 1,200 Filipinos living on the vast Arctic island of 57,000 inhabitants, the…

President Donald Trump’s envoy to Greenland says he got a warm welcome on his first visit this week. But the mood on the Arctic island was decidedly frostier, with one of its most prominent lawmakers calling the visit “appalling” and “offensive.” Pipaluk Lynge, who chairs Greenland’s foreign and security policy…

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry—who for some reason is serving as President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland—admitted Friday that the administration wants to take over the Arctic island for the oil. Landry’s comments came after he traveled to Greenland uninvited last week, while the U.S. pressures Denmark to allow it…

Article content NUUK, Greenland — Greenland Resources Inc. (TSX:MOLY, FSE:M0LY) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU) of Sweden and twelve other participants to join the BOREAS project that aims to develop autonomous robotic systems, which can be utilized to…

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) claimed that Greenland “was not on a map” until President Trump “put it on a map,” comments that follow rhetoric for months from the president to acquire the island. “What I’ve found, that Greenland was not on a map, until Donald Trump put it on…

US special envoy to Greenland Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (C R) and Greenlandic m... US special envoy to Greenland Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (C R) and Greenlandic mason and Trump supporter Joergen Boassen (C L) are pictured in Nuuk, Greenland, on May 20, 2026, on the sidelines of…

Call it a Nordic hello. When Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry—who is, for some reason, President Donald Trump’s new special envoy to Greenland—touched down in the capital city of Nuuk on Sunday, he got a frosty reception, including a middle finger from one resident, The New York Times reports. Landry’s weird…