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For even the hardiest of travelers, Greenland has long been terra incognita, a place unreachable in any casual ...

The contraceptive device IUD is at the centre of a crisis in the relationship between Denmark and Greenland. An investigative podcast has revealed that Danish health authorities in the 60s and 70s placed thousands of IUDs in Greenlandic women and girls to diminish population growth. A practice deemed today by Greenlandic politicians as a serious violation of human rights, bordering on genocide.

It’s hot. Really hot. Where should you escape to?

A group of University of Maine students find themselves on a multifaceted expedition this summer.

Victims demand compensation over 1960s modernization drive that saw 4,500 women, including minors, fitted with contraceptive devices without their consent.

Summer flights between Greenland and the Canadian territory of Nunavut have resumed, but not without a slight hitch.

Cross-linked news, and information resources about Yukon

Greenland's peripheral glaciers make up only four per cent of the island's ice cover but are contributing up to 11 per cent of total ice loss from territory, say researchers of a paper published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "You have this pretty small fraction of the ic

A genetically distinct polar bear population that hunts off freshwater ice has been identified in Greenland, researchers outline in a paper published June 16 in the journal Science.  The population, which is thriving in freshwater ice conditions in the southeast part of the island, could provide