The world’s largest island sits in the Arctic Circle and is strategically and economically valuable.
On a flat map, Greenland looks like a lonely white expanse at the top of the world. On the right projections, it jumps out as the hinge between North America, Europe and the Arctic Ocean, a place ...
For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...
President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...
Seismic imaging detects subglacial sediments up to 650 feet thick, letting glaciers slide faster over soft beds than rock and ...