For fortune hunters dredging Alaska’s Bering Sea floor for gold, old...
The Bering Sea region, the Pacific gateway to the Arctic Ocean, is home to ecosystems on land and in the ocean that are both...
Russia extends its claim to the Arctic Ocean seabed
Russia has formally enlarged its claim to the seabed in the Arctic Ocean all the way to Canada’s and Greenland’s exclusive economic zones. The...
Norway won’t participate in a major European NATO exercise next year
NATO’s northernmost country, with a direct border to Russia’s militarized Kola Peninsula relies heavily on allied reinforcements, but lacks capacity to join when its...
Russia’s Northern Sea Route sees record cargo volume in 2018
Russia’s Northern Sea Route saw another record-setting year in 2018 as 18 million tons of cargo traveled along the country’s Arctic coastline. This compares...
Alaska’s new governor has dismissed the state’s climate team and scrapped...
The state of Alaska no longer has an official strategy for addressing climate change.
With an administrative order issued on Feb. 21, Gov. Mike Dunleavy...
A new China-Iceland Arctic science observatory is already expanding its focus
It began as an aurora observatory — a place to improve atmospheric observations and space science in northern Iceland, at a rural outpost an...
Polar bear shot dead after attack on Svalbard
A polar bear was shot and killed Saturday after it attacked and injured a tour guide.
The attack happened Saturday morning when a group of...
Three Russian submarines surface and break Arctic ice during drills
MOSCOW — Three Russian nuclear ballistic missile submarines have surfaced simultaneously breaking the Arctic ice during drills, reported the commander-in-chief of the Russian fleet...
A century after leaving Norway, Amundsen’s polar exploration vessel ‘Maud’ returns...
Two years after being raised from the shallow waters off Cambridge Bay, in Nunavut, and a century after it set off on the voyage...
A Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker will make 5 North Pole voyages this...
The most powerful icebreaker ever built, 50 let pobedy (50 Years of Victory), will serve as a cruise ship for high-paying travelers this summer. Starting in Murmansk,...
