In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect followed.

There were no Situation Room meetings and no quiet calls to de-escalate a dispute with an ally. Just threats, counterthreats, surrender and an indication of the president’s approach to Greenland and Panama.

The president’s confrontational foreign policy has created opportunity for his allies on K Street who are willing to take on clients he has targeted.

Negotiations over an 836,000-square-mile island may fall to a close friend of Elon Musk with experience in deal-making. Just not that kind of deal-making.

In Paris, the two officials acknowledged potential strains on alliances with the return of Donald J. Trump to power, but said their countries would try to maintain strong ties.

The president-elect said the United States needed the island, which is a semiautonomous part of Denmark, for national security reasons. But there are other possible interests.

After Donald Trump suggested he might take over Greenland by force, the consensus among the island’s population appears to be bewilderment and anxiety.

In an hourlong news conference at his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect delivered a hodgepodge of grievances, complaints and false claims.

Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade.

In announcing his choice of various envoys, including ambassador to Denmark, the president-elect again floated the idea of the United States acquiring Greenland.

Cows and pigs produce a large share of planet-warming methane. A new tax is part of a plan to clean that up.

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Mette Lykke leads Too Good to Go, which operates in 19 countries to reduce waste and make surplus food accessible.

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