The Latest Breaking News from Greenland

A Greenland court decides Wednesday whether to keep US-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson in custody pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, where he is wanted over an altercation with whalers.

Environmental leader Bob Brown protests at embassy ever so nicely.

American-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will remain in custody pending a decision to potentially extradite him to Japan, a Greenland court ruled on Thursday. Watson was arrested in Greenland last month on an international arrest warrant and is facing charges related to a 2010 confrontation with Japanese whaling ships.

US-Canadian environmental activist Paul Watson considers his detention in Greenland and Japan's extradition request to be political, his campaigning group Sea Shepherd said Thursday.

In the not-too-distant past, Greenland lived up to its name. That's because until recently the idea that Greenland was ice-free in the recent geologic past seemed too far-fetched.

Ivalo Frank’s documentary draws in deep science about the origins of life on Earth along with warm portraits of the young people who face environmental crisis

Japan has asked Denmark to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was arrested in Greenland last month

Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been arrested in Greenland and awaits potential extradition to Japan.

As global temperatures inch upwards year after year, the world’s glaciers retreat. These rivers of ice and the even larger ice sheets which cover Greenland and Antarctica are melting – and the melt is speeding up.