With the international spotlight on Greenland, Múte Egede, the island’s prime minister, used his New Year’s address to call for complete independence from Denmark: he declared it was “now time to take the next step for our country” to remove the “shackles of the colonial era and move on”.

While the autonomous Danish territory has been quick to say it isn't for sale, its vast and mostly untapped mineral resources are in great demand. Jagged grey peaks suddenly appear before us, as the motorboat navigates choppy coastal waters and dramatic fjords at Greenland's southern tip.

Denmark’s prime minister said the US should remember that the Nordic country has lost troops fighting in US-led wars and always has supported its large partner, after President Donald Trump escalated his demands over Greenland.

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it always mattered so much.

President Donald Trump told Denmark ’s prime minister he is serious about taking over Greenland in a “fiery” phone call last week, the Financial Times reports. Trump and Mette Frederiksen spoke on the phone for 45 minutes last week after the president said he wanted the US to take Greenland, despite officials repeatedly saying it’s not for sale.

In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at precisely the moment when Russia, having just lost the Crimean War, was seeking to counterbalance British power in the Pacific. This proved to be the perfect recipe for American expansion in the Arctic.

President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk.

Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister, according to senior European officials.

Some studies suggested encasing entire bergs in insulation to reduce the rate of ice loss, but no one came up with a serious proposal for how you would go about creating this Christo and Jeanne-Claude-style piece of industrial land art on anything like a sufficient scale.

Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown Imagine standing on a vast expanse of white, seemingly endless. This is the Greenland Ice Sheet, a critical player in our planet's climate system. Picture this icy giant melting beyond a crucial point—it’s a scenario that could lead to global sea levels rising by as much as seven meters.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro had some things to say to President Donald Trump as they were deadlocked over the deportation of dozens of migrants on Sunday. In a nearly 700-word Spanish-language rant posted on X,