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              Greenland

              • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
                FT Magazine
                My two-year, 26-country journey to the frontlines of the climate battle

                Simon Mundy uncovers the human stories behind the greatest challenge in our history

              • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
                FT SeriesPink Snow 2021: winter sports special
                Five ski adventures for 2021-22

                From first descents on Baffin Island to an alternative Alpine ‘haute route’

                Nunavut
              • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
                Climate change
                Climate change risks triggering catastrophic tsunamis, scientist warns

                Melting of ice sheets could unleash intense seismic activity as weight on crust below is reduced

                Meltwater flows away from Greenland’s retreating Reindeer Glacier
              • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
                Greenland election won by party opposed to rare earths mining project

                Left-green victory likely to be watched by US and China amid geopolitical fight over Arctic’s future

                Picture of IA party leader Mute Egede
              • Sunday, 14 February, 2021
                InterviewGeopolitics
                Denmark raises investment in Arctic surveillance to counter Russian build-up

                Copenhagen to re-establish a Cold War radar station on Faroe Islands and purchase surveillance drones for Greenland

              • Thursday, 23 April, 2020
                US financial aid for Greenland sparks outrage in Denmark

                Support comes 8 months after Trump caused consternation with offer to buy territory

                Icebergs near Kulusuk, Greenland
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2019
                Eoin McSweeney
                Year in a word: Greenland

                Donald Trump wanted to buy the resources-rich island but the Danes called him ‘absurd’

              • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
                Mining
                Danish and Greenlandic government bodies invest in Bluejay Mining
              • Friday, 8 November, 2019
                Travel
                The sound of wilderness: recording Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail

                An experiment in ‘slow radio’ leads Horatio Clare to discover one of the world’s most spectacular hikes

                Crediting is required when using photos from our galleries. This means you have to credit both the photographer and Visit Greenland (http://vg.gl/accr) Photo by Lisa Germany - Visit Greenland This photo is licensed under Visit Greenland License Agreement. Please refer to the license agreement for more info about the rights of use associated with the image. Download the agreement here: http://vg.gl/vglicense When downloading or sharing this image you enter into an agreement with Visit Greenland A/S about the use of the image under this license. If you want to apply for extended user rights for downloads on this database please read these guidelines: http://vg.gl/guidel
              • Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
                Climate change
                Sea level rises faster as polar ice melts, warns UN report

                Landmark UN report lays bare severe risk to coastal cities and low-lying islands

                This July 10, 2008 file photo made with a fisheye lens shows ice floes in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle, seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. In the annual Arctic Report Card, released Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a record emerged for sea ice, which appears when Arctic Ocean water freezes. When its extent peaked for the year in February 2015, it was the lowest maximum coverage since records began in 1979. Scientists had previously announced that the minimum extent, reached in September 2015, was the fourth lowest on record. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
              • Friday, 20 September, 2019
                FT Magazine
                Boom town: Greenland’s climate change gold rush

                Temperatures have risen faster here than anywhere. In towns like Ilulissat, the result is an economic surge

                Ilulissat city centre (West Greenland), at the backgrounders view of the Colonial church and the icefjord - one of the northernmost UNESCO World Heritage Sites ©Anna Filipova
              • Thursday, 29 August, 2019
                Business InsightRichard Milne
                Greenland’s cherished ambitions tied to its mineral bounty

                Island also wants to boost other industries to reduce its reliance on fishing

                Dundas Ilmenite Project (previously known as the Pituffik Titanium Project) from press office
              • Friday, 23 August, 2019
                World3 min
                How Greenland hopes to capitalise on the Donald Trump effect

                FT Nordic and Baltic correspondent meets industry leaders looking to turn media attention into meaningful investment

              • Friday, 23 August, 2019
                Stunned Greenlanders say no to sale but welcome investors

                Inhabitants of world’s largest island still reeling from Donald Trump’s offer to buy it

                FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo, NYU student researchers sit on top of a rock overlooking the Helheim glacier in Greenland. As warmer temperatures cause the ice to retreat the Arctic region is taking on new geopolitical and economic importance, and not just the United States hopes to stake a claim, with Russia, China and others all wanting in. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
              • Thursday, 22 August, 2019
                Global InsightEdward Luce
                The next stop on Donald Trump’s end-of-diplomacy tour

                If the US president makes it through the G7 without hastening the west’s demise, it will be a victory of sorts

                President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, in Washington, as he prepares to leave Washington for his annual August holiday at his New Jersey golf club. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
              • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                Greenland should not be another Trump property deal

                The era when big countries could exchange territories for cash is over

                TOPSHOT - Icebergs float behind the town of Kulusuk in Greenland on August 16, 2019. - Greenland is not for sale, the mineral-rich island said on August 16, 2019, after a newspaper reported that US President Donald Trump was asking advisers whether it's possible for the United States to buy the Arctic island. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images
              • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
                Denmark
                Donald Trump calls Danish PM ‘nasty’ after Greenland bid rebuff

                Frederiksen says she would still like to discuss ‘strategic co-operation’ in the Arctic with US

                A resident in Kulusuk, Greenland. The notion of buying Greenland may not have been at the top of Mr Trump’s agenda, but it was still at the front of his mind early this week
              • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
                News in-depth
                Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland hits a nerve in Denmark

                Copenhagen faces a number of difficult questions about its strategy in the Arctic

                Denmark has seemed slow to grasp the geopolitical significance of Greenland and the Arctic
              • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
                Henry Mance
                So you want to buy Greenland, Mr Trump? Let’s talk terms

                Fellow Europeans, we have a wealthy sucker here. Let’s squeeze him for all he’s worth 

                CORRECTING DATE TO 20 - In this Aug. 15, 2019, photo, a boat navigates at night next to icebergs in eastern Greenland. U.S. President Trump announced his decision to postpone a visit to Denmark by tweet on Tuesday Aug. 20, 2019, after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed the notion of selling Greenland to the U.S. as "an absurd discussion." (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
              • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
                News in-depthFT Alphaville
                Greenland not for sale (1930 edition)

                History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. 

              • Tuesday, 20 August, 2019
                News in-depthRare earths
                US enticed by Greenland’s rare earth resources

                Search is on to secure supplies of critical metals that China dominates

                Greenland is estimated to hold 38.5m tonnes of rare earth oxides, while total reserves for the rest of the world stand at 120m tonnes
              • Monday, 19 August, 2019
                Guardian News & Media Ltd
                Alphaville LLC in the press

                Inaugural research report cited by major British paper.

              • Monday, 19 August, 2019
                Trump says it would be ‘strategically nice’ to buy Greenland

                US president likens transaction to a ‘real estate deal’ but Danish PM says island ‘not for sale’

                Greenland is home to 56,000 people and depends on the Danish government for foreign affairs and national security
              • Friday, 16 August, 2019
                Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland stuns Denmark

                ‘Greenland is not for sale, and can’t be sold,’ says island’s government

                US president Donald Trump has reportedly floated the idea of purchasing Greenland from Denmark in several conversations in the White House
              • Friday, 16 August, 2019
                News in-depthFT Alphaville
                Greenland: Alphaville put on its sellside hat for the deal of the century

                ‘We note the chief executive has a history of levered real-estate transactions’

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