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Danish PM backs NATO 'permanent presence' around Greenland
Jan 22, 2026 (AFP)
"We have asked NATO to be more present in the Arctic region," Frederiksen said at the start of a European Union summit in Brussels. "Everybody in NATO agrees ab...
What are Russia and China doing in the Arctic?
Jan 22, 2026 (AFP)
The development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) by Russia and China since the 2010s, made possible by a warming climate, is real, as is the strengthening of Rus...
Solar cycles seen in Antarctic fast ice history
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
Ice in polar waters can move freely as drift ice, compact into pack ice or lock in place as fast ice when it attaches firmly to the coast or shallow seafloor. I...
Trump says agreed 'framework' for US deal over Greenland; repeatedly refers to Greenland as 'Iceland'
Jan 21, 2026 (AFP)
Trump, speaking after he met NATO chief Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, said little about the purported framework or whether it met his d...
Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution
Jan 21, 2026 (AFP)
Following weeks of increasingly bellicose rhetoric surrounding his desire to seize the autonomous Danish territory, Trump said at Davos that he had reached a fr...
Penguins bring forward breeding season as Antarctica warms: study
Jan 20, 2026 (AFP)
The unprecedented shift observed over a decade in penguin breeding patterns was "highly correlated" with rising temperatures on the frozen continent, said the s...
Denmark proposes NATO surveillance mission for Greenland
Jan 19, 2026 (AFP)
"We have proposed it, the secretary general has taken note of that, and I think we can now -- we hope -- define a framework on how that can be concretised," Pou...
Military aircraft to arrive in Greenland for 'long-planned' activities: US-Canadian command
Jan 19, 2026 (AFP)
The announcement from NORAD, a joint US-Canada military organization for aerospace monitoring and defense, came amid rising tensions over President Donald Trump...
Danish foreign minister to visit NATO allies over Greenland
Jan 18, 2026 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen will visit Oslo on Sunday, travel to London on Monday and then to Stockholm on Thursday. The diplomatic tour follows US Pr...
NATO chief's tactic on Trump's Greenland threats? Change topic
Jan 16, 2026 (AFP)
His strategy for now: say as little as possible and try to change the subject. Facing warnings the crisis could tear the 76-year-old military alliance apart, th...
EU has 'strategic responsibility' in Greenland: France
Jan 15, 2026 (AFP)
Barrot spoke after Denmark said the United States still aimed to take control of the mineral-rich Arctic island. "Arctic security is inseparable from... Europea...
World-first ice archive to guard secrets of melting glaciers
Jan 14, 2026 (AFP)
The two ice cores taken from Europe's Alps are the first to be stored in a purpose-built snow cave on the frozen continent that one day should house an invaluab...
Is China a threat to Greenland as Trump argues?
Jan 13, 2026 (AFP)
But analysts suggested China is a small player in the Arctic region, and thus far from the threat Trump has argued. Here is what we know about Beijing's presenc...
NATO says working on 'next steps' to boost Arctic security
Jan 12, 2026 (AFP)
"Currently we are working on the next steps to make sure that indeed we collectively protect what is at stake," Rutte told journalists during a visit to Croatia...
Danish PM says Greenland showdown at 'decisive moment' after new Trump threats
Jan 11, 2026 (AFP)
Ahead of meetings in Washington from Monday on the global scramble for key raw materials, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that "there is a conflict over G...
NATO chief talks Arctic security with Rubio amid US Greenland push
Jan 09, 2026 (AFP)
The US leader has rattled allies by refusing to rule out using military force to take over the autonomous territory of fellow NATO member Denmark. Trump says co...
Dogsleds, China and independence: Facts on Greenland
Jan 08, 2026 (AFP)
Trump has insisted the US needs Greenland for national security reasons. What does Denmark's defence agreement with the US on Greenland say? What is Copenhagen ...
Oligocene deep ocean temperatures drove isotope swings in Antarctic climate record
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
Knowledge of climate variability in deep time often rests on measurements of the heavy oxygen isotope 18O in the calcite shells of benthic foraminifera that acc...
Sentinel 1 decade long radar record tracks shifting Greenland and Antarctic ice
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
Starting in 2014, Sentinel 1 observations now form the first continuous map of surface flow velocities across both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets at con...
Ancient Antarctica reveals a 'one-two punch' behind ice sheet collapse
Jan 07, 2026 (SPX)
A new paper in Nature Geoscience, "Spatially variable response of Antarctica's ice sheets to orbital forcing during the Pliocene," explores the complicated dyna...
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