James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...

A major ice storm is moving across North Carolina, with some areas expecting over three-quarters of an inch of ice. Widespread power outages and near-impossible travel conditions are expected to last ...

London | Donald Trump spoke to a journalist in the White House in 2021 about his desire to acquire Greenland: “I love maps. And I always said, ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive, and that should ...

Forecasters point out that these amounts are not final, and snowfall totals will depend on the exact track of the storm. That track is still uncertain, but the odds are increasing for a heavier hit to ...

The ongoing debate regarding the true size of the African continent is significant and timely. The African Union is supporting the call to depict Africa in its true size as just and moral. Spearheaded ...

US President Donald Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where the issue of Greenland will be front and centre. Trump’s long-running ...

President Donald Trump is hoping to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory covering more than 836,000 square miles —three times the size of Texas, with about 80% covered by a massive ice cap.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is. President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing ...