She also reminded the president that Denmark of course recognizes the strategic importance of Greenland to the United ...

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

You had to catch a plane to Kangerlussuaq, a tiny town 320 kilometres away and the site of a former US Air Force base and, from there, fly in a hair-raising turboprop. Even the official visitor ...

The weather station gave way in 1951 to a US airbase ... In 1968 a B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed seven miles from the Thule air base. The Danes and Greenlanders who helped with the ...

Another mission, Hard Head, saw a nuclear-armed bomber remain airborne over Thule Air Base to provide continuous visual surveillance of the BMEWS radar. Both the Second World War and the Cold War ...

The tug of war between Denmark and America over Greenland is about much more than Donald Trump’s trademark bluster. It is also a story of colonialism, superpower rivalry and a misprint on a map.

"If you knew what the weather was like in Greenland ... which is the Pituffik space base … formerly known as the Thule air base," says Rahbek-Clemmensen. It specialises in missile defense ...

Our U.S. Military has two bases of operation in Greenland - Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, and Camp Century, primarily used for Arctic research, and largely abandoned in ...

Luckily, I had on this Smartwool long-sleeve top, so when I did get too hot, I took off my neck gaiter or coat and felt perfectly warm in 5-degree weather thanks to this base layer. When I first ...