The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality.

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

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

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

Although Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede reacted to Trump with the ...

Donald Trump’s latest geopolitical moves – proposing to merge Canada and purchase Greenland – are shaking up traditional ...

Back in Nuuk, Lynge turns to the map once more to reflect on how Greenland became caught up in a much bigger game. He refers to the 1946 attempt by the US to buy Greenland from Denmark, under which ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new ...