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Asians ensure population growth in Greenland
278 Asians arrived in Greenland in 2025, contributing to an increase in the overall population of 198.
This is reported by Sermitsiaq.
At the end of the year, 56,740 people were living in the country. The number of people with Danish citizenship continues to decline, as it has for six consecutive years. In addition, the number of people born in Greenland also continues to decline.
Denmark provides F-35 fighter jets to NATO s Arctic Sentry
NATO has launched the mission to strengthen its presence in the Arctic, part of an effort to defuse tensions within the alliance prompted by the U.S. president's push to acquire Greenland from Denmark.
"Our F-35 contribution strengthens the overall presence in the region and underscores Denmark's role as an active ally in the Arctic and North Atlantic," Denmarks minister of defense, Trouls Lund Poulsen said in a statement.
Poulsen also expects the United States to contribute to the NATO mission, he told reporters ahead of the Munich Security Conference.
Canada's 1st Inuit University Spot Chosen
Arviat in Nunavut located along the western shore of Hudson Bay, will be the home of the first Inuit-led university in Canada's Arctic.
This according to CBC News.
The location of the main campus was formally announced in Ottawa on Wednesday afternoon during an event hosted by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), the national organization representing Inuit.
ITK President Natan Obed said the creation of the first university in Inuit Nunangat — the homeland of Inuit in Canada — is an important step in asserting jurisdiction in the Canadian Arctic.
Arctic basic training programme in Greenland increases
The Danish Ministry of Defense and the Greenlandic government have decided to increase the admission to the Arctic basic training in Greenland from 30 to 50 students starting in the summer of 2026.
"The educational program will provide young people in Greenland with broad basic training which can strengthen the collective Greenlandic preparedness," said Major General Søren Andersen, Chief of the Joint Arctic Command, when the education programme was launched in 2023.
The increase in the number of students is to meet the great interest in the education programme among young Greenlanders, writes the Danish Armed Forces. In 2024, the new education program received 200 applications.
US Senator Murkowski to Greenland
US Senator for Alaska, Lisa Murkowski (R), is to visit Nuuk, Greenland next week.
That is reported by several media outlets.
Greenlandic parliament member Aaja Chemnitz (IA) has told DR that the visit is to happen on February 6.
Earlier this month, Murkowski visited Copenhagen, Denmark, with several other US lawmakers in midst of US President Trump's continued remarks about the need for control over Greenland.
"It pleases me that my long-standing cooperation with Senator Murkowski can create a framework for dialogue at this time," said Chemnitz in a post on Facebook.
Chemnitz statet that the meeting with the lawmakers in Copenhagen was a result of her dialogue with Senator Murkowski.