Greenland's pro-independence foreign minister Pele Broberg was demoted on Monday after saying that only Inuits
should vote in a referendum on whether the Arctic territory should break away from Denmark.
Scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world's northernmost landmass -- a yet-to-be-named island north of Greenland that could soon be swallowed up by seawaters.
Greenland's ice sheet has experienced a "massive melting event" during a heatwave that has seen temperatures more than 10 degrees above seasonal norms, according to Danish researchers.
Only people who have received at least the first dose of a coronavirus vaccination will be permitted to use public transport in Greenland from midnight on Monday.
The United States wants to strengthen its relationship with Greenland, especially commercially, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday, but stressed that the country’s government, unlike Donald Trump, doesn't want to buy it.
A left-wing environmentalist party opposed to a controversial mining project won a clear victory in Greenland's parliamentary election, according to results released Wednesday.
The autonomous Danish territory of Greenland votes Tuesday in legislative elections, after a campaign focused on a disputed mining project, as the Arctic island confronts first-hand the effects of global warming.
Denmark's military has started delivering Covid vaccines to remote settlements along Greenland's west coast, part of efforts to vaccinate isolated communities in the vast territory where logistics are complicated by extreme cold weather.
Denmark's government has formally apologised to the 22 Greenlanders who were moved to Denmark and cut off from their families in the 1950s in an attempt to bridge the cultural gap between the Scandinavian country and its then-colony.
A new cold record in the Northern Hemisphere of -69.6 degrees Celsius (-93.2 Fahrenheit) was set on December 22nd, 1991, in Greenland, the Danish Meteorological Institute announced Wednesday, 28 years after the fact.
The melting of Greenland's ice cap has gone so far that it is now irreversible, with snowfall no longer able to compensate for the loss of ice even if global warming were to end today, according to researchers.
Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod made a clear effort to place Denmark as a close ally of the United States after meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday.
A year after Denmark dismissed President Donald Trump's offer to buy Greenland, his secretary of state is visiting the Nordic country on Wednesday, with Arctic issues at the top of the agenda.
A Danish ice cream maker said on Wednesday it would remove the name "Eskimo" from one of its products in case it offended Inuit and other Arctic people.
Russia has criticised the US's announcement of a $12.1m aid deal with Greenland last as "confrontational" and "inappropriate", in a sign of growing competition over the world's largest island.
The sale of alcohol has been banned in the Greenland capital Nuuk in a bid to reduce violence against children during
the period of confinement over the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government announced.
Greenland will halt all air traffic to the Arctic island and close its schools to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, where just one case has been detected.
Greenland announced its first case of the novel coronavirus on Monday, as the autonomous Danish Arctic territory
brought in restrictions to protect residents from the pandemic.
Kayaking past blue-white icebergs drifting along near a pristine harbour, wandering around colourful houses or trekking in the snow-capped wilderness: July and August are high season for tourists in eastern Greenland.
The state visit of Donald Trump to Copenhagen at the start of this month, which was eventually cancelled by the US president, had been expected to cost 33 million kroner in total.
Tethered between pastel-coloured wooden houses in the Greenlandic village of Kulusuk and on hills nearby, the island's famous sled dogs wait through the summer for the ice to form so their hunting season can begin.
US President Donald Trump’s scrapped state visit to Denmark was scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday. His inflatable likeness has kept to the original timetable.
