The U.S. has been Greenland’s defender since April 1940 when Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark. In 1941, Danish diplomats and Greenland authorities essentially made Greenland an American ...

There is historical precedent: After Germany occupied Denmark in World War II, the U.S. set up military bases in Greenland as part of the Allied effort and remained there after the war.

Greenland's tourism industry is expected to see a boom this year following the launch of a new route between the island’s ...

But Greenland’s population of roughly 56,000 is a small fraction of the Scandinavian country. For context, the least-populated U.S. state, Wyoming, had around 577,000 people at the time of the ...

NUUK, Greenland — When U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019, people thought it was just a joke. No one is laughing now. Trump’s interest in Greenland, restated ...

Back in 1946, the United States tried to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100 million gold bars. The attempted sale wasn't ...

United Airlines has started a seasonal, nonstop flight from Newark to the capital of the Arctic island that President Trump ...

Greenland is onethird as large as the continental United States with ice a mile thick covering 90% of the island. A full meltdown of the Greenland Ice Cap would cause all world oceans to rise 20 feet.

Greenland’s size — 836,330 square miles — also offers Mr. Trump, a former Manhattan developer, the chance to clinch what he may see as one of history’s greatest real estate deals.

Maybe most prominently, he has repeatedly discussed buying Greenland from Denmark, ... After Germany occupied Norway in 1940 and Adolf Hitler’s troops invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, ...

Geologist Minik Rosing refutes claims from the Trump administration about untapped mineral riches in Greenland. The U.S. should look closer to home to secure the future.