Authorities say a rare polar bear spotted in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat.

Police say a court in Greenland has ruled that veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson must remain in custody as authorities consider Japan’s request for his extradition.

Greenland police say they have apprehended veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan.

A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly $6.3 million).

An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a “cliff-like” tipping point looming in the future.

Authorities says the luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer has been successfully pulled free three days after running aground in Greenland with 206 people on board.

Norway has taken over the Arctic Council’s rotating presidency from Russia.

Scientists now fear increasingly warmer water in daily tides are doing much more damage to one of Greenland's glaciers than they thought.

Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time and moved their clocks one hour forward for the very last time.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland.

A new study says at least four climate tipping points are close to being triggered.

A new study finds that Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice that can be thought of as zombie ice that's going to raise sea level globally by at least 10 inches.

The Biden administration is upgrading its engagement with the Arctic Council and countries with an interest in a region that's rapidly changing due to climate change.

One of the world’s few rare earths processors outside China has bought exploration rights to mine in Greenland, opening an avenue for diversifying supplies of the minerals critical for advanced and green technologies.

It was quite a discovery in tropical waters to bring in a Greenland shark, which can live for more than 500 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Parts of Antarctica Friday hit 70 degrees warmer than normal.

The Arctic continues to deteriorate as global warming increases.

A team of Arctic researchers from Denmark say they have accidentally discovered what they believe is the world’s northernmost island located off Greenland’s coast.

There was an all-time record high of over 67 degrees Fahrenheit over eastern Greenland last week.

The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest island, calling it is “a natural step” because the Arctic government “takes the climate crisis seriously.”.

A new study details how part of the Arctic nicknamed the “Last Ice Area” suddenly melted a bit in the summer of 2020.

GENEVA – For all the recent talk of global warming, climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency calls a new record low in the Northern Hemisphere — nearly -70 degrees Celsius (-93 F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Greenland. The World Meteorological Organizations publicly confirmed Wednesday the all-time cold reading for the hemisphere: -69.6 Celsius recorded on Dec. 22, 1991 at an automatic weather station in a remote site called Klinck, not far from the highest point on the Greenland Ice Sheet. “In the era of climate change, much attention focuses on new heat records," said WMO Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas in a statement. The new low was confirmed by so-called “climate detectives” working with the WMO's Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes in Geneva. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was the -89.2 Celsius (-128.6 F) recorded in 1983 at the high-altitude Vostok weather station in Antarctica, WMO said.

Ice in the Arctic Ocean melted to its second lowest level on record this summer, triggered by global warming along with natural forces, U.S. scientists reported Monday. The extent of ice-covered ocean at the North Pole and extending further south to Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia reached its summertime low of 1.4 million square miles (3.7 million square kilometers) last week before starting to grow again. Arctic sea ice reaches its low point in September and its high in March after the winter. This year's melt is second only to 2012, when the ice shrank to 1.3 million square miles (3.4 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which has been keeping satellite records since 1979. In the 1980s, the ice cover was about 1 million square miles (2.7 million square kilometers) bigger than current summer levels.

After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all records with 586 billion tons (532 billion metric tons) of ice melting, according to satellite measurements reported in a study Thursday. Thats far more than the yearly average loss of 259 billion tons (235 billion metric tons) since 2003 and easily surpasses the old record of 511 billion tons (464 billion metric tons) in 2012, said a study in Nature Communications Earth & Environment. Last years Greenland melt added 0.06 inches (1.5 millimeters) to global sea level rise. While general ice melt records in Greenland go back to 1948, scientists since 2003 have had precise records on how much ice melts because NASA satellites measure the gravity of the ice sheets. As massive as the melt was last year, the two years before were only on average about 108 billion tons (98 billion metric tons).

BERLIN A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour there due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. Expedition leader Markus Rex said Wednesday the RV Polarstern was able to reach the geographic North Pole because of large openings in sea ice above Greenland, where shipping would normally be too difficult. The mushy ice conditions the Polarstern encountered this year provide further evidence of the warming that scientists say is taking place in the Arctic. The MOSAiC expedition involves scientists from 17 nations, including the United States, France, Russia and China. The coronavirus pandemic almost caused the mission to be cut short, as travel restrictions made resupply and crew rotations difficult.

NEW YORK If Taiwan or Greenland is in your travel plans, U.S. public health officials say you can go ahead and pack your bags. Previously, the agency told U.S. travelers to avoid all nonessential international travel because of the COVID-19 pandemic. CDC officials advise only that certain people, such as older adults and those with certain underlying medical conditions, talk to their doctors before making the trip. But the CDC continues to advise against non-essential travel to more than 200 other international locations. The change in travel advice from the public health agency is expected to be followed by a similar revision to the State Departments global travel advisory.

COPENHAGEN U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Denmark on Wednesday for meetings with the country's leaders that are likely to address the construction of a disputed gas pipeline which Washington opposes. He also is set to participate in a meeting with political leaders from Greenland and the Faeroe Islands, which are semi-autonomous Danish territories. The European Union warned the U.S. to hold off threatening trade sanctions against EU companies involved in the completion of the new German-Russian natural gas pipeline and instead discuss differences as allies. Denmark gave permission in October for the German-Russian underwater gas pipeline to be laid to through its territory. The U.S. has been an outspoken opponent of the pipeline, which will transport natural gas about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles).

The statue in Nuuks old district was vandalized early Sunday as Greenland was marking its National Day. Statues and monuments of people associated with racism or colonialism have been targeted in light of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. Egede, who was born in Norway that was part of Denmark at the time, is considered to be the person who colonized Greenland and founded the capital, Nuuk. Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953 when it became a formal part of the Danish Realm. In 2009, Greenland became a self-governing entity.

-- On Wednesday, temperatures in New York City's Central Park could reach 90 degrees. If every day between Tuesday and Friday hits the forecast 90 degrees, it would make 91 days over 90 in 2019. Browning, Montana got 48 inches of snow and Great Falls, Montana hit a new one-day September snow record with 9.7 inches. Shifting temperature patterns across the globe fueled several dangerous summer heat waves that broke records in Europe and the US. Another heat wave rolled all the way up from the Sahara to Greenland, where the high temperatures threatened the world's second-largest ice sheet.

CNN VideoCNN - Greenland might be the new travel hot spot, thanks to President Trump. "[T]raffic to our Greenland site increased by more than 2,800%, compared to the same date in 2018," the travel agency said in a statement to CNN Travel. And when the President tweeted an image of Trump Tower on Greenland, traffic spiked again. Intrepid said it did not have any concrete booking data yet, as it just began offering Greenland trips a few weeks ago. Part of the reason so many new Greenland tours are being offered now is because of climate crisis, which ironically makes the area more accessible for visitors.

CNN Video(CNN) - Less than two weeks before his scheduled trip to Denmark, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he has postponed his visit to Copenhagen after the Danish Prime Minister disputed his interest in buying Greenland as "absurd." He continued, "The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. A White House official confirmed to CNN that the entire trip to Denmark is being scrapped. On Sunday, Trump confirmed his interest in buying the country, telling reporters that Greenland is hurting Denmark. When Trump confirmed his interest in the Greenland purchase on Sunday, he had suggested his trip to Denmark was not related.

It turned out to be a soccer field's worth of ice breaking off a glacier more than five miles away. Greenland lost 12.5 billion tons of ice to melting on Aug. 2, the largest single-day loss in recorded history and another stark reminder of the climate crisis. "We should be retreating already from the coastline if we are looking at many meters [lost] in the next century or two." In 2017, the glacier lost a whopping two miles, and a year later scientists from New York University captured a miles-long ice column break off the glacier's front. A billion tons of ice lost here raises sea levels in Australia, in Southeast Asia, in the United States, in Europe," Willis said.

(CNN) - The Danish Prime Minister called Donald Trump's interest in buying Greenland "absurd" the same day the President confirmed he had discussed the possibility of the US purchasing the country -- albeit, Trump said, it wasn't a high priority for America. Greenland belongs to Greenland," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Sunday told newspaper Sermitsiaq. On Sunday, Trump confirmed his interest in buying the country, telling reporters that Greenland is hurting Denmark. Frederiksen on Sunday said conversations around the US buying Greenland were "an absurd discussion." Trump's talk about buying Greenland, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, would not be the first American effort to purchase Greenland.

Can President Trump buy Greenland? https://t.co/ev5DDVZc5f Lars Lkke Rasmussen (@larsloekke) August 15, 2019Greenland MP Aaja Chemnitz Larsen tweeted, No thanks to Trump buying Greenland!" Researchers have been tracking the melting ice on Greenland, which has the only permanent ice sheet in the world outside of Antarctica, and said the two largest melts in history have occured this summer. "We are literally watching the Greenland ice sheet disappear right before our very eyes, said NASA scientist Ian McCubbin. We all share one ocean, so a billion tons of ice lost here raises sea level all across the world."

Greenland is not on the market now, but that's not to say the government can't change its mind. Only 20% of the country's 836,300 square miles is inhabited by humans. Visit Greenland, the country's official tourism website, recommends hopping on a plane, helicopter or boat to get around. But that's a classic case of map distortion: At 11,724,000 square miles, the continent is 14 times larger than Greenland. Culture is uniqueNearly 90% of Greenland's population is of Inuit origin.