Earlier this year, the Trump administration raised eyebrows and inspired scoffs when it announced it wanted to buy Greenland. Since then, the government has ignored the laughs and continued to pursue its stated objective. Now, a new report from a Danish news outlet alleges that multiple Americans with direct ties to Trump have been engaged […]
U.S. Amps Up Spying on Greenland and Denmark as Trump Covets New Territory
U.S. intelligence agencies were ordered last week to focus more attention on spying on Greenland and Denmark, two longtime American allies, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The order came from two high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, according to the newspaper, as President Donald Trump continues to […]
Trump’s New Plan for Acquiring Greenland Is UBI for Its Residents—on Americans’ Dime: Report
President Donald Trump’s obsession with acquiring Greenland is ongoing, despite aggressive disinterest on the part of the territory’s inhabitants, or those of its parent country, Denmark. Indeed, the White House is reportedly considering some pretty creative tactics to sell Greenlanders on the deal, including paying them a regular annual stipend—on the U.S. taxpayer’s dime. The […]
A Monumental Storm Dropped 16 Billion Tons of Snow on Greenland, Slowing Melt of Ice Sheet
Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the planet’s rising temperatures, it’s melting. Human-induced climate change is intensifying atmospheric rivers, but new research suggests their impact on Greenland’s ice sheet is more complex than once thought. A research pair has investigated the recent impact of an intense atmospheric river—a […]
Scientists Pinpoint ‘Tipping Point’ for Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet
Much of icy Greenland may soon go the way of the dodo, according to a group of researchers’ latest climatological analysis. Soon is a relative term, but the team posits that just a few degrees of temperature change could put the second-largest ice sheet on Earth into a death spiral, catalyzing over 20 feet (6.1 […]