DONALD Trump has doubled down on his intention to acquire Greenland when he is president, and this map shows why he is so keen. The incoming president has long argued the icy land should come ...

One reason could be how "massive" he believes the island to be. But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map ...

A Chinese group's offer last year to build three new international airports on Greenland sparked alarms in Copenhagen and Washington. In 1943 US Air Force built its farthest-north air base at ...