Greenland's mineral riches are an increasing focus of the U.S. and, as the vice president recently warned, America's rivals.

Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the market?

(THE CONVERSATION) Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the ... Earl “Buddy” Carter made a recent legislative proposal to rename Greenland as “Red, ...

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Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn't ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee; Derek H. Alderman, University of ...