Trump’s reversal on Alaska ocean mapping will help the Arctic
An international effort to create a definitive map of the ocean floor by 2030 will get a boost from the Trump administration’s plan to...
Russia’s hypersonic missiles could be why Donald Trump wants to buy...
It has been a little more than three months since U.S. president Donald Trump confirmed on live TV that a purchase of Greenland, its...
Today’s Air Force Arctic survival gear tests have a long history...
The U.S. Air Force’s F-35 may be the most expensive weapons system ever built, but space inside the new fighter is at a premium,...
A controversial road project in Alaska could become the next big...
In the early 1970s in Alaska, the oil industry said it needed an Arctic highway to be built alongside the proposed trans-Alaska pipeline, which...
Arctic permafrost thaw could set off sudden environmental changes
Discussions of permafrost thaw in the Arctic have tended to frame it as a gradual process that could slowly change the future Arctic environment,...
When Boeing proposed the world’s largest plane for Arctic shipping
With climate change and the continuing decline in Arctic sea ice, a new proposal to export liquefied natural gas from Alaska in icebreaking tankers...
What we can learn from a new look at the Bering...
As a home-schooled teenager from Decorah, Iowa, Bathsheba Demuth had her introduction to the Arctic in 1999 when she arrived in Old Crow, Yukon...
At the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, a generational divide marks...
Alaska’s Indigenous residents scattered in rural villages through the state know the reality of climate change better than most people. But when it came to...
What a recent EU Arctic forum shows about the bloc’s efforts...
The U.S. is ramping up in the Arctic, Russia banks heavily on its own Arctic provinces, China’s Arctic interests are growing. And in early...
How a myopic view of the Arctic hampers U.S. policy
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the genial former Texas governor, tends to be long on platitudes and short on substance. Perry lived up to his...
