CRYOPOLITICS

Ever since humans began moving north across the Siberian tundra 45,000 years ago, they have been chasing a constellation of northern dreams. Pleistocene people followed in the gigantic footsteps of woolly mammoths and the fuzzy paw prints of saber-toothed kittens. In m...

These past few nights, I’ve looked up at the Moon and thought how surreal it is that humans were headed there. Shooting through the stars were four astronauts in a spacecraft hurtling 40,000 kilometers per hour through the blackness of Earth, spiriting farther away from home than any human in history. For a brief moment, Orion, NASA’s $20 billion deep-space vehicle, formed on...

The Greenlandic tundra disintegrated beneath my feet. As I ran north from Ilulissat on a sunny June morning, my shoes kicked up a cloud of dust behind me, the lifeless detritus of 1.7 billion year-old rocks. Where springy green moss and little pink flowers once grew now lay gray grit.

To my right, jagged boulders lined a makeshift road leading to a quarry at the to...

While US President Donald Trump raises fears of Russian and Chinese ships swarming Greenland, Greenlanders and Danes are fearing the much more real possibility of American ships swarming the world’s largest island.

In the wake of the US military’s devastatingly successful removal of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from power last week, people in Greenland are no...