Greenland's prime minister issued a bold statement declaring a desire for independence from colonial powers after Donald Trump stirred up debate.

NASA satellite imagery discovered the ruins of an old US nuclear weapons base, Camp Century, under the permafrost in Greenland, an abandoned relic of the Cold War. Its resurfacing is an apt metaphor for Donald Trump’s proposal to expand US territory into the circumpolar North,

Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland has put the world’s largest island in an unexpected position of power.

Greenland's prime minister says the people of his Arctic territory don't want to be American or Danish, but he's open to cooperation with the U.S.

Of all of these grand Trump plans, the likeliest to be brought into existence is “Gulf of America” – he certainly has that power.

In 1867 the Russian government sold Alaska to the United States. William Seward, the Secretary of State and an enthusiast for expansion, negotiated an agreement under which the Americans paid $7.2 million for the 600,