Inuit hunting grounds in the Arctic circle were given Unesco World Heritage status on Saturday, the UN agency announced at a meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama.
A decision last year to raise the Danish flag at the parliament building in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, on Denmark’s Constitution Day, appeared to have been forgotten when the day rolled around earlier this week.
The five nations bordering the Arctic Ocean on Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment made in Greenland a decade ago to "peacefully" settle their differences over the resource-rich region threatened by climate change.
Greenland's ruling social democrats have won elections in the vast self-ruled Danish territory, results showed
Wednesday, but will have to hold negotiations to form a coalition.
Greenland votes Tuesday in a local parliament election, with full independence a key issue for the self-ruled
Danish territory threatened by global warming and struggling with youth suicides and sex abuse among its indigenous people.
Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, will hold legislative elections next month, a government official said Tuesday, with full independence and the diversification of its fishing-reliant economy the main issues.
Four people are now presumed dead after police called off their search following the landslide and subsequent flood in western Greenland earlier this month, as experts continue to assess the cause of the disaster.
Scientists in Denmark plan an expedition to Greenland's remote northwest to measure how fast ice is melting around a Cold War-era US military base, which risks leaking toxic waste into the environment.
Greenland's ruling Siumut party on Thursday formed a new coalition after clashing with its former partners, but admitted it was divided on the controversial issue of uranium mining.
Denmark’s royals are making the country look “callous and out of touch” for posing in animal furs for a commemorative stamp, the animal rights group Peta has claimed.
A snow-covered former US army base in Greenland -- dubbed "a city under ice" -- could leak pollutants into the environment as the climate changes, raising difficult questions over who is responsible for a clean-up.
Temperature records were broken in Greenland this year after parts of the territory's vast ice sheet began melting unusually early, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) said on Tuesday.
Greenland sharks are the Earth's longest-lived vertebrates -- or creatures with a spine -- with a lifespan that can last as long as 400 years, a team led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen said on Thursday.
Meteorologists on Greenland have recorded a 10 percent melt of the island's sheet ice, beating the record for the earliest date for this level of melting by ‘nearly a month.’
Apparently there is a Guinness World Record for just about anything, as an industrial metal band’s performance on a Greenlandic iceberg will be included in the 2016 edition of the annual reference book.
The US Court of Federal Claims has said that the American subsidiary that was controversially awarded a lucrative maintenance contract for the US Air Force’s base did not meet the necessary requirements.
If you are planning an expedition to the Arctic or are just interested in the area, you may want to check out new website ‘Isaaffik Arctic Gateway,' which is being launched in Copenhagen on Wednesday to facilitate research in the wake of climate change.
Just a few years back, Greenland rode on a wave of optimism as untapped oil and gas-resources seemed to secure that long-wanted independence from Denmark. Today it looks different and young people are leaving.
