Greenland, Donald Trump
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Denmark, Greenland
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Greenland, Europe
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The Danish territory is largely uninhabited, but the president wants to make it part of the U.S. because of its strategic location and rich natural resources.
Greenland is 836,000 square miles of largely frozen ground northeast of Canada. So why does the White House say it "should be part of the United States"?
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to take Greenland, which has received extra weight after the capture of Maduro in Venezuela. Why?
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Greenland’s melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump is eyeing dangerous to extract
As Greenland’s ice melts and water flows into the ocean, sea level changes, but in ways that might not be intuitive. Away from the island, sea level is rising about an inch each
LYNGBY, Denmark — New Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Sunday that U.S. statements about the mineral-rich Arctic island have been disrespectful and that Greenland “will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just ...
Amid rhetoric from the Trump administration, some officials, such as Stephen Miller, point to Greenland's colonial past.
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Who owns Greenland? The story of the world’s largest island, which is in the spotlight of the U.S.
In January 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House with a renewed set of expansionist ideas. One of them, once again, was Greenland.
US President Donald Trump has long said he wants to take control of Greenland, the world’s biggest island and a self-ruling territory of Denmark. He’s stepped up the pressure during his second term in office,
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