The National Park Service is cutting off access to Cleetwood Cove Trail, the most heavily used trail at Crater Lake National ...

This is not just a matter of politics — in the context of American national defense, it’s a matter of geography and physics. Greenland, like Iceland, plays a vital role in continental defense ...

Rerouting History: From Suez to the Arctic Once upon a time, if you were mapping global trade, your pen would glide through the Middle East and North Africa. Cairo. Haifa. Dubai. Aden. The Suez Canal ...

I am convinced that Greenland's importance to US interests will grow. Thanks to geography, historical ties ..., the United States has the inside track when competing for influence in Greenland [even ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Let’s start with geography. Greenland sits like a frozen fortress between North America and Europe, straddling the Arctic Circle. In terms of proximity to key global powers, it’s only about ...

"Greenland would have to request statehood ... And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America." Geography research scholar Barry Scott Zellen, Ph.D, of the University of ...

if the US can claim Greenland for security reasons, Russia should do the same with Svalbard. The conclusion to draw from this is not that Trump should aim to annex a sovereign Norwegian island next.

The retreat of Arctic glaciers has revealed new land formations, significantly altering the region’s geography.

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Equally worrying, Russia has increased its naval cooperation with China and given Beijing access, and a stake, in the Arctic.