America’s 20th and 19th century expansionists would have been delighted by the president-elect’s proposed land grab.

Trump, believe it or not, isn’t the first president or elected U.S. official to propose buying Greenland. William Seward, the Secretary of State responsible for purchasing Alaska from Russia in ...

Seward’s ice box, and Johnson’s polar bear garden proliferated. William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69. (Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons) Unfortunately, the idea of Seward’s ...

Greenland is not an island; it is a mirror — a reflection of the most pressing issues of our time: power, resources, sovereignty. The more Trump proceeds with restoring his Arctic ambitions, the greater the need to look behind headlines and to get used to the deeper meaning of this glacial temptation.

Greenland is covered by the world's second-largest ice sheet, beaten only by Antarctica. Under this vast expanse of ice lies a hidden world of colossal canyons, prehistoric plant remnants, and even traces of human activity. In northwestern Greenland, the buried ruins of a US military research base remain concealed beneath the frozen surface.

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

Greenland is in the headlines as President-elect Trump threatens to buy or simply take the territory — perhaps along with Canada and Panama. Some media outlets have suggested this is no mere ...

Greenland’s prime minister weighed in on President-elect Trump’s proposal to acquire the island territory, arguing that the nation intends to keep working toward independence from Denmark ...

As President-elect Donald Trump digs in on his proposal to expand U.S. control over Greenland, many of his allies in the MAGA movement have defended the move in conventional foreign policy terms.

As Eric was exiled from Iceland, he made his home here and called it Greenland. Some 80% of the island is covered by icecap and the remaining parts do not appear very green either. According to ...

The incoming American president Donald Trump made clear he has ambitions in the self-governing Danish territory of Greenland, a vast and sparsely populated Arctic island to the northeast of Canada ...

Greenland's prime minister seemingly shut the door on President-elect Donald Trump's aspiration to acquire the autonomous Danish territory, saying Greenlanders don't want to be Americans or Danes ...