Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade. To imagine the kind of future a hotter, ...

History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways.  Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were ...

New research reveals a stark reality: between 2010 and 2023, Greenland lost a staggering 563 cubic miles (2,347 cubic ...

Our analyses focus primarily on sea ice extent, which is a measurement of the area of ocean where there is at least some sea ice. In the Arctic, the annual minimum sea ice extent occurs in September ...

President-elect Donald Trump has sparked international controversy with recent remarks about the United States potentially ...

Great swaths of the planet are drier with saltier soils, jeopardizing food production and water access for billions.

Defense of Greenland Agreement provides a legal and historical basis for the United States to assert greater control over ...

In 1946, the U.S. considered proposals to pay Denmark $100 million in gold bars for Greenland or trade oil-rich land in ...

Donald Trump is signalling his incoming administration’s readiness to expand U.S. territory, with recent out-of-nowhere ...

While Greenland is currently not for sale, the U.S. has purchased land and territories from other countries in the past.

Absorbing Canada and Greenland, as Trump has suggested this month, would make the US the world’s largest country, bigger than ...