Will Trump take over? Trump says that acquiring Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, will “protect the free world". But Europe, and Greenlanders themselves, stand in his way.
Struggle for Greenland turns surreal
Community ties: Eighty-eight percent of the people living in Greenland are Inuit or mixed Inuit and Danish, with strong ties to Inuits in Canada and Alaska. Most of the remaining 12% are of Danish descent. Glossary
Tundra - One third of the Earth's soil-bound carbon is in these treeless arctic regions. As global warming melts the permafrost, this carbon escapes as CO2 and methane.
Glaciers - A slowly moving mass of ice formed by snow building up on mountains.
Greenland - An island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is the world's largest island.
Denmark - A country in Northern Europe. It is where Lego was first invented.
EU - European Union. An economic and political union of 27 countries.
GDP - Short for Gross Domestic Product, the measure of all the goods and services produced inside a country.
Aid - Help or support.
Extract - Remove or take out, especially by effort or force.
Travesty - A fake and offensive representation of something. Travesty descends from the French verb travestir, meaning to disguise.
Ancestral - Belonging to ancestors, the people we are related to who lived before us.
Alienate - Make someone feel disconnected or isolated.
Expansionism - The belief that a country should grow by taking over new territory.