They argue that Iceland, along with the Greenland Iceland Faroes Ridge (GIFR), contains geological fragments from both European and North American tectonic plates. This, they say, suggests that these ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark’s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the ...

The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study.

New computer-driven techniques allow eclipse calculations to consider the sun’s radius and the topography of the moon and ...

As Moo Deng, the popular pygmy hippo continues to soar in popularity, Newsweek looks at the most popular animals around the globe.

New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that the Vikings travelled more than 6,000 kilometres to the Arctic to ...

The Vikings were “extremely well-travelled” with a “global” ivory trade network spanning at least three continents, a new ...

New research shows that the Vikings traveled more than 6,000 kilometers to the Arctic to hunt for walrus. DNA analyses reveal that walrus ivory from Greenland was brought to Europe and probably as far ...

We were aboard an Airbus A330-300 just the other afternoon, bound from Europe to San Francisco flying at 35,000 feet, going 497 ground miles an hour. The cabin was darkened, every seat taken. I had a ...