Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...

We need Greenland very badly.” With those words on NBC in February, President Trump reopened a discussion spanning over a ...

In 1968, a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber crashed near the Thule Air Base, causing the payload ... They were hoping to map the bottom of the Greenland and Antarctic ice bed, where glaciers rest on ...

Pituffik Space Base was established in 1951 as part of a defense treaty between the US and Denmark. Base operations include scientific research, space surveillance, and ballistic missile detection.

It is about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) north of Greenland’s capital, Nuuk. It was known as the Thule Air Base until 2023, when it was renamed to recognize Greenlandic cultural heritage and ...