Jon Fresch / U.S. Army Paul Bierman, Undark Magazine In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet ...

Recognizing the Arctic's strategic importance, the U.S. military has focused on growing its cold-weather operational capabilities in the region over the last decade. The U.S. Marine Corps, through ...

And then: There is a common trope in journalism about the Arctic—that the melting of polar ice is setting up a geopolitical competition over resources that evokes the “Great Game,” the ...

“The Arctic is really strategic territory,” Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, told local media after the incident. Sullivan was not impressed by the U.S. Coast Guard’s response. “We need the ...

The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet for signs of melting and fretting over rampant ...

The show of force between the United States and Russia continued to heat up as they conducted power projections in the air and on land around the freezing Arctic region. The series of military ...

The Arctic is not the most hospitable place on Earth. Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to help them thrive there, and one of the region’s top predators is no ...

Ten Arctic fox cubs are exploring their surroundings after being born at Wildwood near Herne. Scientists launched an investigation after being baffled by seismic signals picked up across the world ...

The lakes had frozen in the Far North, and the foxes and the grouse had shed their brown fur and feathers in favor of Arctic white. To survive the months of snow and ice, predators resort to ...

Temperatures will climb back towards average as warm air pushes the Arctic front back going into the weekend (Met Office) Earlier in the week on Wednesday, wet, windy and cold weather will prevail ...

A feed of northerly winds - a so-called Arctic blast - has brought below-average temperatures this week and a dusting of snow over the highest mountains in northern Scotland. But before you ...