Jets used on Icelandair flights to Nuuk

Icelandair has decided to use Boeing 737 Max jets on its scheduled flights between Keflavík and Nuuk. This is the first time that passenger jets have been used on flights between Iceland and the capital of Greenland. The first Max flight to Nuuk...

A Garden Waiting to Bloom: The Puck-e-She-Tuck Heritage Garden

On June 14, drum beats and sacred songs filled the air, tobacco and cornmeal were sprinkled across the earth, and prayers for global healing were offered in tongues from Mongolia to the banks of the Mississippi River. A drum circle gathered at 21...

The Conversation’s Greenland Glacier Retreat Hype Isn’t Supported by History or Data

A June 3, 2025 article in The Conversation, titled “Greenland’s melting ice caps reveal the true extent of climate change,” claims that retreating glaciers and melting ice are transforming Greenland’s coastline, providing proof of the severity of...

France's president set to visit Greenland

France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks during the presentation of the European Ocean Pact during the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), which gathers leaders, researchers and activists to discuss how to protect marine...

US seeking rare earth minerals deal with China spotlights need to acquire Greenland, expert says

New Zealand PM and King Charles wish Anzac daughter happy 100th birthday

TOP politicians from New Zealand and Britain sent cards to the daughter of an Anzac trooper as she celebrated her 100th birthday. Edith “Mary” Greenland, whose father Albert Johnson was treated at Brockenhurst during the First World War,...

Macron: Greenland is not up for grabs (nor is Antarctica)

Since his return to the White House, Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to control the mineral-rich, strategically located island. During his speech, the French president also delivered a forceful defense of multilateralism, six months...

Antarctica’s waters are getting saltier - and it could transform Earth's climate

Antarctica’s surrounding ocean has lost sea ice equal to the size of Greenland since 2015. That’s not just a startling statistic – it marks one of the fastest environmental shifts happening anywhere on Earth today. For decades, the belief was...

A Catholic challenge to American exceptionalism

Editor's note: This essay is adapted from the McGinley Lecture delivered at Fordham University on April 9, 2025. While being a U.S. citizen includes many wonderful features and certainly accords many advantages, it also brings along some stigma...

Trial over free speech on campus, and Trump’s student crackdown, begins

Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. But lawyers for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, who are representing the associations, will argue at trial...

How the future supply of smart phones rests on a single mine in North Carolina...and why this crater in Devon could one day power Britain's war machine

Take the road north from Plympton in Devon, just outside Plymouth, and after a couple of miles driving past fields and solar panels, you will see what looks like a big, artificial hill rearing up to your right. This mound may not look like much,...

The environmental impact of Trump’s massive tax and spending bill in the canadian Arctic region

U.S. President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill planned to allocate more than US$8,6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker fleet in the Arctic, where Washington hopes to counter the possible rising Russian and Chinese dominance....

Scientists Sequence Ancient Egyptian Genome for First Time

Top 10 Discoveries of the Decade January/February 2021 Vindija Cave, Croatia, 2010 Read Article (DEA/G. Cigolini/GettyImages) Top 10 Discoveries of 2020 January/February 2021 Northern Europe and Greenland Read Article (Dorset County Council/Oxford...

Small UP town holds big heart for 4th of July celebration

GREENLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC) - A small U.P. town holds a big heart for Fourth of July festivals. Families crowded the street for Greenland Township’s 4th of July Celebration on Saturday. Trisha McIntyre and Sue Turin are the festival’s only...

Views of Trump’s megabill, Mannion’s voice, ICE’s new jail, Ukraine’s peril (Your Letters)

‘Ugly’ bill leaves out Syracuse, again To the Editor: So it’s official: Congress has enacted President Donald Trump’s budget bill that will cut $30 million intended for our city, money that would have helped to right a wrong the government...

Hampton Beach July 4 weekend: Police arrest 85, including 10 in fight

Hampton police made 85 arrests over the Fourth of July weekend, including 10 for a brawl near the Seashell Stage. Social media rumors of gunfire and stabbings at the brawl were false. A high-speed chase ended in the arrest of Jason J. Wagg after...

Water and ice may reveal where rare earth elements are hiding

We hear about minerals all the time. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and rare earth elements appear in the news almost every week. These minerals power phones, electric cars, and military equipment. Countries want them, companies want them, and...

Macron beats Trump with a royal invite to UK, but Starmer may not dump US prez for French bromance

Even as the French-British reset is supposed to be the top agenda of President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit starting Tuesday, US President Donald Trump will be on the back of the head of both the leaders. Macron has beaten Trump to be the first...

Fayetteville airport waterline repair may disrupt service on July 7 | Areas affected

Emergency repairs at the Drake Field Airport may disrupt water services in nearby areas on July 7. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — An emergency waterline repair at the Fayetteville Executive Airport at Drake Field may cause "periodic disruptions in water...

AI Can Help Or Fuel The Climate Crisis. The Choice Is Up To Humans

Austin Flooding road goes underwater and house completely floodedgetty As floodwaters surge through Texas Hill Country streets, heat waves scorch European cities and wildfires tear through German forests, we have to (finally) face the truth: our...