Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated Arctic island, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades.

Greenland's retreating ice exposes vast untapped reserves of critical minerals, creating opportunities for mining companies ...

The U.S. would inherit an environmental dilemma of its own making if it lays claim to the massive Arctic island.

US President-elect Donald Trump says owning the Arctic island is vital for national security, but experts say he may also be ...

Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking ...

Greenland is the world's largest island and an autonomous Danish dependent territory with self-government and its own ...

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The climate skeptic is responding to the reality of the Arctic’s melting ice: more resource extraction, faster trade routes, ...

With global warming causing the Greenland Ice Sheet to melt and flow more rapidly, raising sea levels and disturbing weather patterns across our planet, precise measurements of its changing shape ...

Greenland holds enough ice that if it all melts, the world's seas would rise by 24 feet. Nearly a foot of that is so-called zombie ice, already doomed to melt no matter what happens, a 2022 study ...