The Inuit on Little Diomede are watched over by Russian soldiers. But that’s not their biggest problem in these icy badlands ...

Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor ...

The most important thing for them to experience,” he says, “is how difficult this is.” In the depths of the cold war, US soldiers were a familiar sight in Norwegian garrison towns north of the Arctic ...

Russia does not expect global warming to cause significant changes to ice cover along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) until 2050. Sergey Zybko, the head of the NSR administration, said the ice had been ...

Putin is offering the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in Russia’s Arctic.

International observers have raised concerns about escalating tensions in the Arctic, warning that if left unchecked, they could eventually spark conflict in the region. The Arctic, the ...

In World War II, ‘Mulberry Harbours’ were used by American and British soldiers in the D-Day landings; China today is using ...

The Philippines coast guard raised doubts over the crew's stated intention of sailing Indian Ocean for fishing operations.

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 ...

BEIJING - China has launched some of its biggest military drills around Taiwan in months, in what it said was a “warning” to separatist forces on the island. The strait separates the eastern ...