The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference?

Russian nuclear submarines patrol the Arctic seas, while a growing fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers projects Kremlin power across the region. China and Russia have conducted joint military drills in the Arctic. Beijing is also seeking access to valuable minerals beneath the ice.

The next year, summer 2023, Saros returned to find the familiar lakes utterly transformed. “You could see it right away,” she says. The water bodies had gone from crystal clear and blue–their rocky bottoms as visible as if looking through glass–to a steeped tea-brown.

An estimated 7,500 of Greenland lakes turned brown, began emitting carbon, and suffered a decline in water quality.

Greenlanders do not want to follow American policy on China. And a large minority view Chinese influence in the world positively.

Greenland’s prime minister said he wants to communicate directly with Donald Trump’s administration as the US president ramps up pressure on Denmark to hand over control of the Arctic island.

Greenland's prime minister has rejected Donald Trump's proposal to join the U.S. while a new survey found most Americans oppose the idea.

West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents with drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Yet after two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022,

A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University found a little more than half of Americans don't support Donald Trump's proposal to acquire Greenland.

Taking Greenland through force or coercion would not just be a bad deal for the United States—it could become a legacy-defining unforced error for the Trump administration.

Greenland as a state would add two Democrats to the Senate and at least one Democrat to the House, and they would be European-style socialists.