Despite the war in Ukraine, Russia has not scaled down its commitment to develop its Arctic region from the Barents Sea to ...

Behind the crisis caused by Donald Trump’s threats is a much bigger change: the waning of US hegemony and the coming of a ...

Russia colonized Alaska for one simple reason: profit from fur, especially valuable sea otter pelts. Explorers like Vitus Bering opened the door, traders built posts across the Aleutians, and the ...

The world’s largest island sits in the Arctic Circle and is strategically and economically valuable.

The Arctic – once a frozen periphery – stands as Russia's clearest Plan B as it contends with Western sanctions ...

The rush to claim Greenland ignores Alaska’s vast mineral resources, revealing a scattered development strategy in the Arctic ...

Greenlanders may take some comfort in President Donald Trump’s announcement on January 21st that he had agreed to “the ...

Nome, population 3,700, is accessible only by plane outside a few months when boats can pass through. But it will be the home ...

Russia has spent the past decade adding firepower in the Arctic, with China’s help, but the U.S. and its allies aren’t ...

It’s official. Donald Trump will not, after all, use the massive military might of the US to invade, defeat and occupy Greenland, a big territory that belongs to Denmark but has a tiny population of ...

The lack of a formal process makes the international community's response to the US claim unclear. But the Trump ...

As a result of more whales washing up dead, NOAA declared an “unusual mortality event” in California in 2019. Between 2019 ...