Greenland

I’d say writing comedy about the ever-shifting opinions of Donald Trump, the Speedy Gonzales of on-the-hoof policymaking, is like playing pin the tail on the donkey, but it’s unfair on donkeys. No donkey ever sexually assaulted someone in a department store changing cubicle. It’s 4.30pm on Wednesday and I’m done.…

Emilio Morenatti A baby is held by her mother as they attend a religious service at Hans Egede Church in Nuuk, Greenland, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) NUUK, Greenland (AP) — About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to…

And they’re Lutheran. About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, more than 300 years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of Christianity to the world’s largest island. Greenland is huge — about three times the…

By Written by: Jeffrey Gettleman New York Times · 21 Feb, 2025 12:44 AM 12 mins to read Ignored for most of its existence, the huge ice-bound island has been thrust into a geopolitical maelstrom. It’s trying to make the most of it. Above the harbour, where little boats splattered…

Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer, former Obama advisors and the hosts of "Pod Save America," slammed Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.)'s idea to rename Greenland "Red, White, and Blueland," saying the “stupidest f------ people” are currently in charge of the government. Carter introduced a bill on Tuesday that would allow President…

February 13, 2025 @ 6:43 AM Following Donald Trump’s push to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” some Republicans have set their sights on renaming Greenland to Red, White and Blueland. That is a real sentence, and Seth Meyers was simply confounded by it on Wednesday…

Arctic landscape near the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Credit:: USACE. President Donald Trump has developed a strong fixation on Greenland, and floated the idea of the United States buying the island from Denmark. The proposal has been broadly criticized for its imperialistic overtones, but it spotlights that the Arctic…

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In a first, researchers have recorded countless "ice quakes" that sporadically shake the Greenland Ice Sheet. These quakes may explain the jerky way that the island's frozen rivers move downstream toward the sea, the scientists say. Researchers detected these quakes by lowering a fiber-optic cable into a 1.7-mile-deep (2.7 kilometers)…

Before taking office again last month, Trump said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the island, calling it vital to US national security, and last month his son visited the nation Denmark has hit back at Donald Trump with a light hearted…