While resisting the persistent courtship of its American suitor, Greenland’s left-leaning, independence-minded government in ...

and Secretary of State William H. Seward proposed buying Alaska back in ... Renfro said control over previously impassable Arctic shipping lanes might seem valuable. “Greenland is in a great ...

Around the same time, Johnson's secretary of state William H Seward approached the Danish ... but a deal on the Arctic island was never struck. "It's not until World War I that the topic really ...

In 2019 when the proposal for an American purchase of Greenland last (briefly) arose, the gambit, though quickly superseded ...

An Arctic air mass kept its grip on much of the central and eastern U.S. on Friday, plunging temperatures to record lows as snow blanketed central Colorado and the Pacific Northwest braced for an ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than 95 million people are facing gripping cold Tuesday as a polar vortex sends temperatures plunging to record levels, closing schools, bursting pipes and forcing ...

At 13,000 tons, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Star is a mammoth vessel made to crash through Arctic ice more than 20 feet thick. But it is the U.S.’s only icebreaker that operates year-round ...

The weather patterns have been very dynamic, with massive ridges and troughs in the jet stream leading to many cross-country storms while shots of Arctic air send temperatures plummeting.