Yet the mood among China’s Arctic researchers was subdued as they gathered in early February for two conferences in Tromso in ...

An increase in marine Arctic traffic, which received increased attention as President Donald Trump pushed for the United States to take over Greenland, has come with a heavy environmental cost: black ...

"Black carbon," or soot, that spews from ships and makes the Artic Ocean ice melt even faster is an increasing concern in a region beset with many other issues.

The Arctic has become a strategic focal point for countries, lying at the intersection of climate and geopolitical challenges. Climate change has sharply accelerated this transformation.

At a shipyard in Finland last month, workers cut the first steel for a new icebreaker ship. Over the next three years, about 10,000 tons of the metal will go into the hull before the vessel is carried ...

The Arctic plays a critical role in Moscow’s nuclear doctrine. It is home to Russia’s Northern Fleet, based in Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula, which operates six of the country’s 12 nuclear-armed ...

What makes this moment striking is not merely China’s growing presence in the polar north, but the pathway that has led it there. In a twist of strategic irony, policies designed in Washington to ...

The climate crisis, the thirst for fossil fuels and critical minerals, colonial legacies and Indigenous rights: A battle for ...