Russia sets out stringent new rules for foreign ships on the...
The Russian government has elaborated a set of rules for foreign naval vessels sailing on the Northern Sea Route, according to Izvestia. The newspaper has...
Why President Trump’s idea to buy Greenland is not a joke...
For more than a week, journalists and commentators across the world have been regarding U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks that he may consider buying...
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...
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...
For the first time ever, an Arctic Council ministerial meeting has...
A meeting of all eight Arctic foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Russia's Sergei Lavrov, ended on Tuesday in Rovaniemi,...
With an Alaska-to-Chukotka flight, travelers push for easier Bering Strait crossings...
After enduring several days of weather delays, a slimmed-down convoy of aviators and travel pioneers intent on strengthening Alaska-Russia ties completed a planned trip...
The US Navy’s new Arctic strategy is limited in scope and...
The U.S. Navy quietly released a barebones new Arctic Strategic Outlook earlier this year, which critics say doesn't do enough to sketch the challenges...
The U.S. Navy ups its Arctic engagement, sending ships north and...
The U.S. Navy continues to step up its Arctic engagement, sending one cruiser and three destroyers into North Atlantic waters, and establishing a temporary...
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...
A decade on, a Greenland rare-earths mine is close to final...
A decision on whether to permit mining at one of the world’s largest deposits of rare-earth elements has moved to its final stage after...
