The Latest Breaking News from Greenland

Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should “take back” the Panama Canal and that it should assume control of Greenland – one way or another. He has talked of Canada becoming America’s 51st state and now he even…

He eulogises the 25th incumbent, William McKinley, but on tariffs and imperialism, Trump is learning the wrong lessons, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Greenlandic parliament calls for snap election for 11 March as ruling party, Siumut, proposes accelerating independence process

It’s hard to tell how serious his threats are—and maybe that’s by design.

New 3D maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet show how huge cracks in the ice that accelerate melting expanded between 2016 and 2021.

The president’s Gaza proposal is a signal that old-school, blunt-force US expansionism seems to be back in fashion

On 23 February 1982, the autonomous Danish territory voted to withdraw from the EEC. See how the Guardian reported events

‘The world’s eyes are on us’ says Greenland tourist board

The UK Prime Minister welcomed Denmark’s announcement of a new military to defend the Arctic from ‘hostile activity’.

Mette Frederiksen said Britain was ‘one of our closest and most important allies’ after her dinner with Sir Keir Starmer

In 2018, a colleague and I, together with a team of Greenlandic research assistants, conducted one of the most comprehensive surveys to date on public opinion in Greenland. We travelled to 13 randomly selected towns and settlements across the island nation, conducting in-person interviews with a representative sample of adult…