Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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New international airport set to open in Greenland's capital Nuuk, allowing larger aircraft to land for the first time – paving the way for direct flights from US and Europe
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Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, known for his decades-long fight against Japanese whaling and arrested in Greenland in July, has asked France's president for political asylum
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A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark's Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic into Danish
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The Vikings were part of a global network trading in ivory from Greenland
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A seismic signal heard across the world last September for nine days has been traced back to a trapped tsunami triggered by a landslide in the remote fjords of Greenland
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Maelstrom under Greenland's glaciers could slow future sea level rise – pioneering mission into mysterious and violent world may reveal ‘speed bumps’ on the way to global coastal inundation
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How to build an Arctic airport – why airport construction in Greenland is (quite literally) booming
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan in Greenland
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Discovery of a new primitive microcontinent between Greenland and Canada could help scientists understand how microcontinents form
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Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt by feeding on the snow algae which diminish ability of ice to reflect the sun
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New GPS-based method can measure daily ice loss in Greenland
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Inuuteq Storch – who is the first Kaalaleq/Inuit artist to have a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale – aims to capture ‘the Greenlandic everyday’
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Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe – location, extent and strength of recent freshwater events suggest unusually warm and dry summer
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European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s
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The tragic story of this famous meteorite and the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him
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How Greenland’s mineral wealth made it a geopolitical battleground
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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How Denmark destroyed Greenland: Brief history of Denmark's colonialism in Greenland
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Greenland's massive ice sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots climate targets – but even then quick action could stabilize it
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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change – one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse
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Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state
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Denmark's parliament to introduce interpreters – Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam spoke and answered questions in Greenlandic, causing protests from some lawmakers
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Buried under the ice
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To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world's most remote fjords in Greenland and Antarctica
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Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
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Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock
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Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
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When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
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Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland's ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
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Rights expert urges Denmark and Greenland to examine colonial legacy’s impact
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Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields
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I set out on a journey to the high north of Greenland to meet the Inuit communities that brave the harshest winters in the world
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Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language
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Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were thirty years ago
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Playing on the edge – football in Greenland
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study
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Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
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Isolation combined with an inhospitable environment can be a cause of stress on Greenland – but locals have found a way to deal with it: tuning into nature
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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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Denmark's semi-autonomous territory Greenland is coveted by China, the United States, and global mining companies
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Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as twelve, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb, often without consent
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Researchers have been given a £420,000 grant to explore the potential use of a blockchain-based voting system in Greenland
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It appears both the West and Beijing itself have grossly overestimated Chinese expansion in Greenland
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Microphones dropped into ocean off Greenland to record melting icebergs – artist Siobhán McDonald will turn recordings into an acoustic installation
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