Nicknamed "top of the world", Pituffik isn’t just a harsh posting ... Yet this frozen fortress continues to serve as America’s Arctic eyes and ears — a throwback to the Cold War that ...

The Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is a cornerstone of U.S. Arctic defense and the site of rising ... is a sign welcoming the few who trek there to "the top of the ...

Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic is the world's most northerly ... Ny-Ålesund has housed an international community at the top of the world just 1,200km (745 miles) from the North Pole.

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of the world, scientists announced this week. Specifically, March sea ice ...

By Veronika Samborska for Our World in Data The world is heating up. By the 2010s, the global average temperature of the air ...

"The Arctic is warming between four and seven times faster than the rest of the world," he told Newsweek, and "as a result, you have more access for transit, more access for military activity and ...