Greenland

(Newser) - A Danish expedition is set to head for the Arctic tomorrow, joining the scramble to claim polar territories. A team of 40 scientists and massive icebreakers are heading north to prove that a 2,000-kilometer underwater mountain range stretching to the pole is an extension of Greenland, and accordingly belongs...

(Newser) - Global warming is a looming planetary disaster, but there will be winners along with the losers, writes Brookings Institute Fellow Gregg Easterbrook. While arable regions turn into arid wasteland and coastal communities sink beneath rising oceans, climate change could trigger a real estate and mineral resources boom in balmier Alaska,...