Greenland is the world's largest island, but most of it is covered by ice. Its southern tip, however, is sprinkled with ...

F or a long time, Greenland – the world’s largest island – has been an enigma to outsiders (not least among them Donald Trump, who lately renewed his interest in acquiring i ...

In the isolated settlement of Kapisillit, Greenlanders tell the BBC's Fergal Keane Donald Trump is welcome to visit - "but ...

Although America has a history of taking a commercial approach to international relations, purchases are rarely made without controversy. When Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana in 1803, doubling ...

According to a common variation of this argument, gaining a greater degree of control over Greenland — either by buying it, ...

I have transited both the Northwest and Northeast ocean passages. The ice melt is now advanced in Greenland, where settlements have community docks under water. A full meltdown of the Greenland ...

Greenland has a very limited air network but does have flights to Denmark, Iceland, and seasonally, the United States.

The island’s rare earth minerals and plum Arctic position have turned it into a geopolitical hotspot and the object of American fantasies.

Famously, the Norse explorer Erik the Red sailed West from Iceland, named the island he encountered “Greenland” and established settlements there toward the end of the 10th century.

The incoming U.S. administration admits that its stunning polar gambit is about warding off Russian ambitions.