Cuts in scientific research programs in the Arctic will undermine Arctic security and benefit Russia and China. In 1958, the USS Nautilus became the first submarine to travel beneath the North Pole.

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 ...

Could a single shipping route shift both trade flows and geopolitical influence? China’s new “Arctic Express” to Europe leverages melting ice to bypass chokepoints and challenge Western dominance. In ...

Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets, including giant underwater sea curtains and refreezing Arctic ice, are gaining popularity as the planet heats up. But none of the most high-profile ...

In Alaska's Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink now run orange and hazy with toxic metals. As warming thaws formerly frozen ground, it sets off a chemical chain reaction that is poisoning ...

HONG KONG, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project has departed from a Chinese port, shiptracking data showed, a day after it berthed ...

Canada has dispatched an ice-breaking vessel to rescue a Dutch-flagged freighter that ran aground in the freezing waters of the Northwest Territory while transiting a key Arctic waterway. The company ...

Plans to save ice in the polar regions and "repair" the climate using technology are a "flawed" distraction from the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases, according to a new scientific assessment.

The Coast Guard reported late Wednesday that it had detected and monitored two Chinese research vessels this week operating 200 miles off the Arctic coast of Alaska. On Sunday, the Coast Guard located ...

Designed to conquer the frozen expanses of the Northern Sea Route (NSR)—Russia’s attempt to create an alternative maritime corridor to the Suez Canal—this vessel plays a crucial role in facilitating ...