W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in ...

As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

The world's largest island has its own system of fjords, lakes and black-sand beaches. What to know about the size of the ...