The Latest Breaking News from Greenland

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has requested French nationality, his lawyer Jean Tamalet told AFP on Thursday, as Paris pushes for his release from a Greenland jail where he is being held pending possible extradition to Japan.

How the US presidential election has been blighted by a campaign of online disinformation including misogynist and racist content. Annette Young talks to American disinformation specialist, Nina Jankowicz about how governments need to step up to prevent the erosion of democracy by toxic misinformation. Plus a group of indigenous women…

Greenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal.

Organic fossils found under Greenland show that the middle of the landmass was ice free, serving as habitat for life within the last 1 to 2 million years.

As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-colored spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view.

Allies of the 73-year-old anti-whaling activist Paul Watson have said that prison time would amount to a ‘life sentence’

Discover the secrets behind Greenland sharks' incredible longevity and their potential implications for anti-ageing research in humans.

Discover the secret behind Greenland sharks' 500-year lifespan and its implications for anti-ageing research in humans.

Surprising new research has revealed why the world's longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, has such a lengthy lifespan. The findings could have big implications for the species' future.