Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute B. Egede has called a general election for next month, with global attention drawn to the island after US President Donald Trump said he wants to wrest control of the territory from Denmark.

Greenland has recently drawn global attention, yet much of the coverage centers on US and Danish perspectives rather than what Greenlanders themselves want.

Greenland's prime minister announced on Tuesday that the semi-autonomous Danish territory will hold a general election on March 11 amid interest by U.S. President Donald Trump in acquiring the Arctic island.

The world's second biggest body of ice - the Greenland Ice Sheet - is cracking open quicker than scientists had previously thought. That's according to new research by a team of scientists, led by Dr Tom Chudley, from Durham University's Geography Department.

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far below and realizing what I suspected were floating shards of ice were in fact icebergs the size of office blocks.