“We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” President Donald Trump said on Jan. 5, “and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.” This was the icebreaker for a negotiation over ...

Climate change is opening previously inaccessible land and sea to development and shipping, boosting global interest in Greenland.

Donald Trump has reversed course and abandoned plans to impose tariffs on a group of U.S. allies that had objected to his ...

As Trump considers buying Greenland, the island grapples with hazardous US military waste and environmental liabilities.

This is the view described by Durham glaciologist Tom Chudley, when writing about his research showing the Greenland ice ...

Greenland, which has been prominently in the news in recent days, hosts a vast ice sheet. If it melts, it will become one of the largest contributors to global sea-level rise. Under a high-emissions ...

The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm occurring east of the Rockies might seem to conflict with life on a rapidly warming planet. But all of these things still happen, even with ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...