In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

US President Donald Trump seems eager to exploit grievances.Some three years ago, a Danish public radio podcast brought to ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Greenland is the world's largest island, but most of it is covered by ice. Its southern tip, however, is sprinkled with ...

Here’s what happened the last three times the U.S. tried to acquire Greenland.

The road south from Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, runs out at the tip of a blizzard-scoured peninsula stretching into the ...

Trump has said Denmark would be committing a 'very unfriendly act' if it did not allow the US to take over Greenland. What's ...

Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's former minister to ...

Rather than appeal to Denmark’s goodwill, President Trump’s rhetoric risks trapping the U.S. in a cycle of increasing ...