The Pentagon's move to shift its oversight of Greenland under U.S. Northern Command aligns with President Donald Trump’s pledge to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.

One reason could be how "massive" he believes the island to be. But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map ...

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., declared on CNN Monday that the average middle American probably has no idea where Greenland is on a world map. Appearing on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Coons made the ...

“If you're trying to model an ice sheet, the single most important input is ice thickness,” geography professor ... and so on.” The map also suggests that Greenland’s glaciers may be ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...