To measure the sharks' metabolism in the new study, the researchers took tissue samples from the muscle of 23 Greenland sharks that were caught on the south coast of Disko Island in central Greenland.

Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times A spokesman for KoBold Metals declined to say whether the firm, which surveyed Disko Island off the west coast of Greenland for mining opportunities in 2022 ...

It has also secured a Mineral Exploration License for Disko Island—which is located off Greenland’s west coast—for the years 2024-30. The New York Times has also reported on the business ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's years-long bid to take control of the world's largest island ... Disko project could be one of the largest occurrences of nickel and copper on the planet ...

Jorgen Waever Johansen, co-founder of the Greenland Water Bank, a company that markets water produced by the glacier on the island of Disko, in Nuuk on January 21, 2025. JULIETTE PAVY/HORS FORMAT ...

Travel writer Mark Stratton is an Arctic specialist who has traveled to Greenland six times and counting. He’s marveled at the aurora borealis, sailed to Disko Island, dog-sledded with the Inuit ...