Greenland

For years glaciologists puzzled over strange plume-like structures hidden deep within the Greenland Ice Sheet. Now a new study by scientists from the University of Bergen, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Oxford suggests that these enigmatic features are caused by thermal convection, a process usually linked…

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday that President Trump remains intent on acquiring Greenland. "I think the desire from the U.S. president is exactly the same. He’s very serious about this," Frederiksen said at the Munich Security Conference, according to the BBC. Throughout December and January...Read More

Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, in northern Greenland. (Image credit: Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . US President Donald Trump's position on Greenland has shifted almost daily,…

At the Munich Security Conference on Friday, the Honourable David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence, alongside Denmark's Minister of Defence Troels Lund Poulsen, his Faroese counterpart Sirið Stenberg and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt, signed a Canada-Denmark Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The agreement strengthens defence cooperation across…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! During Team USA's comeback men's hockey win over Denmark at the Winter Olympics, two fans raised the flag of Greenland in the stands to protest President Donald Trump's intent to acquire Greenland for the U.S.  The flag was raised enthusiastically after Denmark…

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen has said she believes Donald Trump still wants to own Greenland, despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force. Asked at the Munich Security Conference if the US president still wanted to own the Arctic island, Frederiksen said: “Unfortunately, I think the…

Forget the "Greenland Derby" talk. It was just team spirit, hard work and plenty of heart. That's how Denmark's players say they took the fight to the United States in hockey at the Winter Olympics. Faced with gaps in skill and experience, Denmark responded with good old-fashioned hard work and…

Two fans who raised a flag of Greenland as the United States played Denmark in men’s ice hockey at the Winter Olympics on Saturday say they did so as a gesture of European support for the island and for Denmark. Vita Kalniņa and her husband, Alexander Kalniņš, fans of the…

As Ottawa looks to use military spending to build up infrastructure in the Far North, Inuit say they want Canada to take tips from Greenland — where a Nordic social model adapted to local needs has built health, housing and education services deemed superior to anything in Canada’s Arctic. “There…

NEED TO KNOW Lindsey Graham offered a blunt and dismissive message to Europeans worried about Donald Trump's vocal plans to take over Greenland “Who gives a s--- who owns Greenland? I don’t,” the South Carolina senator said at POLITICO’s 2026 Munich Security Conference Graham's message comes amid Trump's quest for full “ownership”…