In addition, Trump says the US needs Greenland for "economic security". Some think that, as the ice thins in the Arctic, new ...

NUUK, Greenland — Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight as U.S. President Donald Trump maneuvers to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know ...

By 1400 the Norse were forced to abandon the settlements. Even so, the island remained inhabited: the Inuit people of northern Alaska arrived on Greenland in 1000 and endured long after the Norse ...

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FILE - The Hutchinson family is rowed to safety through the ice floes to the trawler Lord Talbot after their plane was forced down near Eker, Greenland, Sept. 28, 1932. (AP Photo, file) NUUK ...

Circa A.D. 985 The Norse explorer Erik the Red arrives in Greenland with a fleet of Viking ships, according to the medieval Icelandic sagas. The Norsemen established two settlements that had a peak ...