British commandos are returning in force year-round to the Arctic Circle amid a growing Russia threat. The Royal Navy said ...

Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, but experts say that shrinking sea ice is pushing them to approach inhabited ...

On this date in history: In 1893, a jury in Fall River, Mass., acquitted Lizzie Borden in the ax murders of her father and stepmother. In 1898, the U.S. Navy seized Guam, the largest of the Mariana ...

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...

When China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin meet, one theme surfaces with clockwork regularity: Arctic collaboration. In every joint statement issued during their state visits since February ...

Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project raised production to record levels during the last days of June as the facility appears to have resumed loading cargoes. Natural gas output at the Novatek PJSC ...

According to news reports, a Cyprus-based company bought advanced sonar detection equipment from the West—then transferred it to Russia for use in the Arctic. The West continues to be its own worst ...

The United States' first polar icebreaker acquired for the Coast Guard in more than 25 years has begun its maiden voyage, as it prepares to safeguard America's interests in the Arctic. Meanwhile, ...

Russian Arctic is poorly studied, especially its eastern part, starting with the Kara Sea, as well as the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas, Russian geologist, Arctic researcher, Academician Valery ...