On May 12, at the 14th meeting of the Arctic Council, representatives from the eight Arctic States and six Permanent Participant organizations met virtually to conclude Norway’s two-year ...

As conflict zones multiply globally, another frontier is quietly slipping into turmoil — the Arctic. Long seen as a realm of scientific cooperation and environmental protection, the polar north ...

Congress is once again floating the idea of using projected oil and gas revenues from leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to offset rising deficits. But new lease sales in the Refuge ...

The vast, desolate Arctic frontier, rich in untapped energy and mineral resources, has long been dominated by Russia with its massive icebreaking fleet and extensive infrastructure inherited from ...

"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we’re trying to ask here is: Is the Arctic going to change fast, or really fast?" NASA's most ambitious Arctic ...

The Arctic has long filled humans with awe, but there are now profoundly worrying signals coming from the frozen landscape at the top of our planet, and scientists are deeply concerned about its ...

2:20 Canada’s Arctic sovereignty and security ‘under challenge’: navy commander Canada’s spy agency warns that colliding global developments make the Arctic an “attractive, strategic and ...

A new review paper highlights how this would dramatically reshape the Arctic, the fastest-warming region of Earth. In 2024, annual average global air temperatures surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius ...

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 ...

Looks like Greenland is back on the menu. In a series of Truth Social posts, President-elect Donald Trump announced that American ownership of the Arctic island, which hosts the United States ...

Correction: In this piece, we incorrectly described Alaska Natives as Native Alaskans. The transcript has been updated. We regret the error. Since the 1980s ...