More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

A combat air patrol of American and Canadian fighter jets was scrambled this week after multiple Russian warplanes were spotted in the Arctic, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said ...

with Russia, one of the dominant Arctic nations, beefing up its military presence in the region over the past decade. An ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter ... The following month, Russia and China sent patrol boats through icy waters of the high north.

Nations like the U.S., Russia and China are jockeying for influence, not only to access the Arctic’s vast natural resources but also to secure strategic military and trading advantages.

A demonstration in Russia's Arkhangelsk Oblast went awry after two Russian-made Burlak all-terrain rescue trucks fell through ...

One of Moscow's nuclear icebreakers has sustained significant damage after colliding with a cargo ship in the Kara Sea.

Russia has invested heavily in its Arctic military footprint in recent years. Its northernmost Nagurskoye air base on Siberia’s northern coast hosts nuclear-capable strategic bombers ...

In the Arctic, industry is mainly mining. According to Earth Observatory data, oil and gas extraction regions in northern Russia ... flowers bloom in the Atacama Desert for the first time in ...