The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference?

People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he declared last month. The president-elect’s ambition to reshape the world map came ...

Some world maps today can be misleading in terms of how large Greenland actually looks. The Arctic island is 2.17 million square kilometres (836,330 square miles), making it about three times the ...

New 3D maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet show how huge cracks in the ice that accelerate melting expanded between 2016 and 2021 ...

The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in reality, the continent is nearly 14-and-a-half times larger.

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give China a bloody nose. But he also wants to strike his largest ever real ...

Although Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede reacted to Trump with the ...