A combat air patrol of American and Canadian fighter jets was scrambled this week after multiple Russian warplanes were ...

Pacific walruses are harvested in Russia and Alaska ... will likely also mean an expanding anthropogenic footprint in the Arctic,” Johnson said. “More human activity (e.g., shipping lanes ...

Languages: English. The Arctic, once a politically neutral area of the globe, is largely now seen as a geopolitical and military frontier. Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, international ...

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 ...

NATO scrambled two F-35s this week in the Arctic region, where jets intercepted Russian bombers and fighter planes flying near allied airspace, military officials said. NATO’s quick reaction ...

the walrus is one of the Arctic’s most iconic species, and today (Sunday 24 November) is World Walrus Day! There are two main subspecies of walrus, Atlantic and Pacific, with an estimated 25,000 ...

Since 2023, the FWS and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have both operated research stations in the Chukchi Sea, a region of the Arctic Ocean between Alaska and Siberia, with one of the scientists’ ...