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Rain falls on the summit of Greenland for the first time in recorded history. The rain shower dumped more than 7 billion tonnes of water on the ice sheet.
2021-08-19

Satellite imagery shows that a big chunk of ice shattered into many small pieces from the last remaining ice shelf in Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, Greenland.
2020-09-14

Greenland reports its first confirmed case of COVID-19, in Nuuk.
2020-03-16

In response to reports that U.S. President Donald Trump expressed interest in the United States acquiring Greenland, Greenland's Foreign Minister Ane Lone Bagger dismisses the idea, noting on Twitter that "a better and more equal partnership with Denmark should be the way forward for a stronger and longer-term free Greenland".
2019-08-16

Analysis of ancient ice cores extracted from Greenland dates an eruption on Eldgjá volcano in Iceland. Iceland's largest eruption in the last 2,000 years was described in ancient poem Völuspá.
2018-03-20

Greenland's government calls for an early election on November 28 after an expenses scandal prompts Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond to step down as leader of the governing Siumut party. [http:--www.afp.com-en-news-greenland-government-calls-election-amid-pm-expenses-scandal (AFP)]date=August 2019
2014-10-1

Scientists discover an 800km long canyon that is up to 800m deep in places beneath the ice sheet that covers Greenland.
2013-08-30

Voters in Greenland go to the polls for a parliamentary election.
2013-03-12

3 Greenpeace activists successfully evade a Danish warship to scale an oil rig off the coast of Greenland, attempting to begin deepwater drilling in the arctic.
2011-05-29

The European Commission proposes rules for imports of fishery products from Greenland into the EU.
2010-05-3