The name was crowned in irony. Glaciers covered nearly all of Greenland even in Eirik’s time, the last centuries of the Medieval Warm Period (900-1250 C.E.). Still, encouraged by Eirik’s salesy hype, ...

Ruins of a Norse church in Greenland. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 1.0 Scientists may have discovered why the Vikings abandoned their largest settlement on Greenland, reports ...

Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 people who live there are Inuit, descendants of the Thule who reached the ...