The National Park Service is cutting off access to Cleetwood Cove Trail, the most heavily used trail at Crater Lake National ...

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

President Trump's still talking about buying Greenland, declining to rule out force to acquire the world's largest island.

Geologist Minik Rosing refutes claims from the Trump administration about untapped mineral riches in Greenland. The U.S.

Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Rerouting History: From Suez to the Arctic Once upon a time, if you were mapping global trade, your pen would glide through the Middle East and North Africa. Cairo. Haifa. Dubai. Aden. The Suez Canal ...

The US president has not been subtle about his goals for the Arctic: "We'll go as far as we have to go" to acquire Greenland, ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

This week's letters call for a return to past ideals — from treating others well to protecting democratic principles and institutions.