Iceland is one of three countries that still permits commercial whaling. The activists headed to trial this week are calling ...

The dispute over Greenland is ultimately a North American dispute, and its logic is rooted firmly in the Monroe Doctrine, which has been guiding American policy off and on since 1823.

A Greenlander interviewed by The New York Times said he opposes the U.S. gaining control of the world’s largest island because he is “afraid” it would upend his ability to hunt whales and seals.

The largest island in the world, Greenland (that is not green at all but rather covered by white ice), has in recent months and even several years become ...

Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates have been training since 2023 for the mission that will return humans to lunar ...

The state’s environmental agency has the authority to investigate and issue fines for illegal spills, but lacks sufficient ...

Sweden will deploy a Gripen fighter unit to Iceland in February and March 2026 to support NATO Air Policing in the Arctic.

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from the Arctic. Picture of Krista McGrath analyzing one of the harpoons that ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

Trump said "Iceland" when he appeared to mean "Greenland" four times in his speech. Leavitt later denied he mixed the names ...