Greenland’s premier has called elections for June 2, saying he wants voters to decide who will govern the semiautonomous Danish territory once it gets more say in own affairs.

Official results of a non-binding referendum show three of four voters approve a plan to give Greenland more autonomy from Denmark.

Polling stations in Greenland have opened in a referendum on expanding home rule in the vast but sparsely populated Arctic island.

Dreaming of oil wealth, Greenland voters are expected to decide in a nonbinding referendum Tuesday to extend the island’s self rule in what many see as a key step toward independence from Denmark.

For an hour or so Greenland had it’s own mighty waterfall, flowing secretly at three times the volume of Niagara.A meltwater lake on the surface of a glacier suddenly emptied in July 2006, sending millions of gallons of water through cracks in the ice...

Arctic sea ice next summer may shrink below the record low last year, according to a University of Washington climatologist. Ignatius Rigor spoke Monday at the Alaska Forum on the Environment and said global warming combined with natural cyclical changes.

Greenland will hold a referendum in November on greater autonomy from Denmark in what many residents hope could become a step toward full independence, the Arctic island’s prime minister said Thursday.The Nov. 25 vote would be based on the...

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted “hero” awards to scientists backing Russia’s claim to a mountain range under the Arctic Ocean that is believed to contain huge oil and gas reserves.The scientists planted a Russian flag under the North Pole...

The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the “frightening” possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief U.N. climate scientist said Tuesday.The panel, which...

There’s more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.There’s a natural cause that may account for much of...