To address concerns voiced by Trump that Denmark could not defend Greenland in the face of Russian or Chinese confrontation, Frederiksen says it would be a priority for Denmark to step up its defense ...

shifted his focus to Greenland. During World War II, after Germany took control of Denmark, the United States secured military base rights on the island and gained access to weather stations and ...

Long dismissed as uninhabitable, Greenland is becoming the epicenter of 21st-century geopolitics. As the Arctic thaws, rare earth metals, oil, and gas are becoming accessible—and so is a new ...

These days, however, spies can be found snooping on a target much closer to home: Greenland. According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration directed its ...

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice." In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp ...

Greenland might seem like a faraway land of ice and snow, but it has become very important to the U.S. government. The island has only about 56,000 residents, but it covers over 800,000 square miles.

The U.S. is ready to expand its economic and security partnership with Greenland, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) has told Newsweek. The statement follows the Arctic island granting a ...

Few places are home to as many superlative natural features and contrasts as Greenland, an island 80 percent covered in ice, marked by near-pristine wilderness with a silence so absolute it feels ...

As of March, Japan had conducted DNA analysis on 7,026 sets of WWII-era remains found both domestically and abroad. Between 2017 and 2023, the ministry tested DNA from 600 sets of remains from ...

BEIJING, May 19 (Reuters) - China fully respects Denmark's sovereignty and territorial integrity on the Greenland issue, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Danish counterpart on Monday, urging the ...

They found traces of over a hundred different plant species; insects; marine species; and most excitingly, nine vertebrate species whose fossils had never been seen in Greenland, from small ...

Herbert Tennyson, and, far right, 2nd Lt. Tomas Kelly. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP) As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New ...