Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.

Some scientific discoveries take place in a lab. Others are made deep in the rainforest, along the ocean floor or on the dark side of the moon.... Scientists explored the northernmost island of ...

An ice dome in northern Greenland once melted completely at temperatures the region could experience again this century, a finding that will begin to paint a more accurate picture of how fast the ...

When Erik the Red, the father of Leif Erikson, was banished from Iceland in 982, it’s said he called the island Greenland in an attempt to lure more settlers. More arrived, but the lack of wood, ...