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 American president did not wait until the beginning of his second term as head of the United States to raise the purchase proposal of the immense Danish island of Greenland, in the Arctic.

Thule is now Pituffik Space Base ... provocations,” said Eric Einhorn of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “The U.S. has military bases on Greenland. U.S. companies can invest there with the ...

David Barker, a real estate developer and former economist at the New York Fed, told The New York Times that Greenland could ...

Al Jazeera interviews Greenland-based scientist Birger Poppel on the rising tensions stoked by US President Trump.

The sale never went through, but the U.S. got the military base it wanted on the island. Pituffik Space Base, previously known as Thule Air Base, is in Greenland. Pituffik SB is locked in by ice ...

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.

"The Americans closed all of their military installations in Greenland fairly quickly ... which is the Pituffik space base … formerly known as the Thule air base," says Rahbek-Clemmensen.