Plans to open a vast area of the Arctic seabed to mining will cause “irreversible harm” to unique and vulnerable wildlife and ...

The search for rare minerals amid the deep ocean floor could have a devastating effect on whales, other marine mammals and ...

It completes today its largest exercises since the Soviet Union and is racing to expand its fleet of ice-breakers.

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, ...

A SECLUDED island nestled in the Arctic Ocean is the home to a dangerous apex ... to house some 4.5 million seed samples. Individual countries and seed banks provide the seed samples to be ...

The 80-plus guests were lying on the black sand beach, intermittently groaning, or taking a restorative dip in the water. We were on day four of our two- week Abercrombie & Kent Arctic Cruise ...

Countries have been scrambling ... Surface air temperatures in the Arctic are warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, and the ocean could be ice-free during the summer months within ...

Canada and Denmark have agreed on a mechanism to settle a sovereignty dispute over Hans' Island, an uninhabitable 1.2-square-kilometer territory in the Arctic Ocean which will be split into two ...

Control over the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route has been a longstanding ambition for the Kremlin. This is evident in the ...

Discoveries in the Arctic point to potential antivirulence antibiotics that could help overcome bacterial resistance.