The Arctic is one of the coldest and least populated regions on Earth, much of it covered by ice. But in recent years it has become one of the most important sites of geopolitical tensions — and ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

Mining is not new to the Arctic region. Alaska is home to the largest zinc mine in the world and Sweden to the largest iron ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

The 'Last Ice Area' is expected to be the final place in the Arctic where ice persists all year round even as our planet warms up – but a new study suggests the region, and the ecosystem that relies ...

Investment in Pituffik has been inconsistent, however, and its importance has waned since the Cold War. Renewed attention to ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...

Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone at ...

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...

A collaborative project Seabed 2030 has made significant progress by mapping a new area in the Arctic Ocean. The initiative, ...

President Trump's desire to buy Greenland, which state secretary Rubio confirmed was "no joke," has raised tensions between ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...