In 2016, nearly 200 world leaders pledged to do everything possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since ...

The opening up of the polar region has become such a pressing issue that a new Arctic ministerial policy group - spanning ...

NATO scrambled two F-35s this week in the Arctic region, where jets intercepted Russian bombers and fighter planes, military ...

A new review paper, led by NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve and published in Science on February 6, 2025, ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

President Trump's desire to buy Greenland, which state secretary Rubio confirmed was "no joke," has raised tensions between ...

Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone at ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

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 ...

One of Moscow's nuclear icebreakers has sustained significant damage after colliding with a cargo ship in the Kara Sea.

The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic ...