The first Trump administration, in particular, viewed China’s interest in Greenland as having hidden commercial and military ...

Another Chinese firm, General Nice Group, offered to purchase an abandoned Danish naval base in northeastern Greenland, while ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet’s fate is intricately tied to the global climate crisis. Melting ice contributes to rising sea levels ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

Greenland’s rare earth resources are particularly significant. These elements are essential not only to battery, solar and ...

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Pituffik is home to the 12th Space Warning Squadron (12 SWS), which supports three critical missions: missile warning, ...

Donald Trump wouldn’t categorically rule out using the U.S. military to take control of Greenland, saying that America needs ...

part of Washington’s missile early warning system as well as offering space surveillance and satellite command. The ...

NASA satellite imagery discovered the ruins of an old US nuclear weapons base, Camp Century, under the permafrost in ...

New satellite images show the extreme melting that has taken place on the critical Greenland ice sheet, according to researchers. The sheet is a mass of glacial land ice and is an integral part of ...