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 ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

A Danish politician is the latest voice from across the Atlantic to forcefully reject President Trump’s proposal for the U.S.

West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents with drinking water and sequester carbon ...

The next year, summer 2023, Saros returned to find the familiar lakes utterly transformed. “You could see it right away,” she ...

President-elect Donald Trump told residents of Greenland that “we’re going to treat you well” as his oldest son visited the mineral-rich Danish territory that’s home to a large U.S ...

A significant portion of the Greenlandic Inuit population carries a genetic variant that increases their risk of type 2 ...

Can a country legally buy another country? What’s the argument for trying to buy it? And, is the rationale rooted in reality?

President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday night, seizing what may be his final opportunity to reshape Americans’ grim views on his term ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is serious about trying to acquire Greenland, both to expand America's sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere and as a way to ...