Articles by Colby Lamb

During a speech in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum in January, President Donald Trump ruled out using military force to acquire Greenland; however, Dr. Ole Wæver said people in Denmark and Greenland have concluded, “nothing can be ruled out.” “Trump is sufficiently unpredictable, irrational, doesn’t really care for what is in the U.S. […]

On the icy steps of the Greenland Parliament building, at 4:30 p.m. Greenland time, which is four hours ahead of Central Time, and hour 10 of the 16 hours of light in Greenland at the end of April, Greenlandic politician Justus Hansen says that although his party, the Demokraatit Party, does not support independence right […]

Dr. Troy J. Bouffard said that hypersonic cruise missiles are the “threat of our future decades,” adding that the fight to protect against hypersonic cruise missiles will involve all of the North American Arctic. While Bouffard said the hypersonic cruise missiles are a threat of the future, he said there is “no evidence” of a […]

Imagine how depressing it is to live in a place that has no natural color, no trees, no bushes, no flowers, and brown grass. Greenland’s color is man-made, manufactured if you will. While industrialization and modernization of territories across the world have made the territory more technically advanced and human-friendly, Greenland’s modernization has brought color. […]

In the hotly contested race to the Arctic region, Dr. Samantha Hagle believes each of the three global superpowers, the United States, China, and Russia, have different aspects that are driving factors in their interest. For the U.S, it’s national security, even though she believes “we already had what we wanted” with the Pituffik Space […]

In the height of World War II, Denmark was invaded and conquered by the Nazis, making the Danes unable to help and supply Greenlanders for four years, according to Dr. Mary Thompson-Jones. During that time, the U.S. “kept the Greenlandic people supplied, kept sending food, kept sending other supplies of material during the course of […]

Dr. Shale Horowitz said in the race to the Arctic between superpowers, the United States, China, and Russia, the U.S. is playing “catch-up,” while China and Russia have had a presence in the Arctic in the past. “Russia, for a long time, has made this a major priority, plowed a lot of resources into it,” […]

Svend Jensen is Inuit with Danish heritage from his mother’s side of the family. Like Jensen, most people Media Milwaukee spoke to in Greenland are of Danish descent, revealing how interconnected Greenland and Denmark are. “I am very proud of being a Greenlandic person,” Jensen said. “But most of the rules are made by the […]

This story is part of a semester-long investigative reporting project into Greenland’s people, history, and culture. It was created by an immersion journalism class in the Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies program at UW-Milwaukee. Other stories from the project are available on Edge of the Arctic: Greenland, the Land of the People. This work was made […]

As co-founders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, the United States and Denmark have had an anomalous relationship; however, a multi-generational relationship has been put to the test as United States President Donald Trump made the latest of three total attempts by the U.S. to acquire Greenland from Denmark early into his […]

WASHINGTON — Alaska United States Senator Lisa Murkowski emphasized Greenland’s role in North American security, but argued President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about potentially acquiring the territory has made cooperation more difficult, in a June 25 interview. Following a June 25 Hudson Institute event, “Navigating Competition in the Central Arctic Ocean” in downtown Washington, D.C., Murkowski […]

In the Port of Nuuk, a large, sturdy wooden dock features wooden beams connected to a cliff that borders the port and the water. The wooden dock is home to over 50 large ships, fishing boats and tourism boats. Off the edges of the dock are 20-foot stepladders that go down into the ships. A […]