The vast, desolate Arctic frontier, rich in untapped energy and mineral resources, has long been dominated by Russia with its massive icebreaking fleet and extensive infrastructure inherited from the ...

Ceasefire talks could be a catalyst for advancing cooperation in the Arctic, but the climate crisis should not be forgotten. Fishermen work on the ice of the Gulf of Finland against the backdrop of ...

Russia is rapidly militarizing the Arctic, forging closer ties with China, and exploiting NATO weaknesses. The Arctic could be a future site of international competition. As American attention over ...

Days before the United States introduced its global system of tariffs, Chinese and Russian officials held a three-day summit in Moscow. Citing a “friends forever, enemies never” principle as the ...

Russia in the Arctic is a "grave concern" to NATO, Iceland's foreign minister has said, as Moscow forges ahead with its military buildup and economic plans for one of the most austere, but ...

Putin says Trump is serious about Greenland Moscow concerned about NATO intentions in far north Russia will protect its interests but is open to business Russia to expand northern ports, shipping ...

Moscow sees China, India, and other Asian powers as critical for the future of the Northern Sea Route, but their involvement remains limited. Russia’s ambitions to expand the global utilization of the ...

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...

Nearly two decades before U.S. President Donald Trump eyed the strategic value of Greenland for the U.S., Russian explorers planted their country's flag on the seabed 14,000 feet below the North Pole.