Greenland: Why is this huge polar island so important?
America’s newly elected President Donald Trump says that America should take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal because both of them are very important for America’s national security.
Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays a huge role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes that occur across the planet.
Greenland is a place where climate change, scarce resources, tense geopolitics and new trade patterns all intersect.