Countries worldwide have eyes on Greenland for its natural resources, but the island only has one fully operational mine. We visited to find out why.

Greenland's strategic location above the Arctic Circle makes it a focal point in global security and trade debates

Prediction markets are pricing 40 percent odds of a Greenland takeover, driven by Arctic security, Starlink connectivity, Anduril defense systems, and shifting incentives.

Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally that has rejected Trump’s overtures. Greenland’s own government also opposes U.S. designs on the island, saying the people of Greenland will decide their own future.

Isolated in the Arctic Circle and home to only 56,000 people, the massive ice-covered island may be next on the US's wish list due to its strategic and mineral-rich location

Greenland is 836,000 square miles of largely frozen ground northeast of Canada. So why does the White House say it "should be part of the United States"?

In addition to political resistance, Greenland’s mineral riches and strategic position would come at a steep cost for the U.S.

When US forces struck the Venezuelan capital and ousted the country’s president Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, it turned one of President Donald Trump’s rhetorical threats into reality.

Still, coincidentally, the last foreign territory purchased by the United States was from Denmark. It bought the Virgin Islands in 1917 for $25 million. A few subsequent U.S. territorial expansions in the South Pacific were the result of annexations and treaties, according to the Global Policy Forum, a watchdog.

Trump doesn’t need to annex Greenland to achieve his goals. But after Venezuela, he revived his threats to seize it, possibly via military force.