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The Danish Foreign Ministry announces that it has reached a deal with Canada to divide the long-disputed Hans Island in the Arctic in half between Canada's Nunavut territory and Greenland.
2022-06-14

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

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

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

After her Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, Aleqa Hammond is set to become first female Prime Minister of Greenland.
2013-03-13

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

American scientists announce an ice sheet has broken from Greenland's Petermann Glacier.
2010-08-6

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