As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

An American intelligence-gathering aircraft has operated off the coast of Crimea for the first time since the outbreak of the ...

Environmental concerns, high costs and worries about ceding northern sovereignty have driven protective Canadian policies ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...

Because of the time difference, the islands are sometimes referred to as Yesterday Island and Tomorrow Island.

Russia and China have stepped up military activity in the Arctic. NATO states in the region are reporting more acts of sabotage.

Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone at ...

As Arctic ice melts, new trade routes, mineral riches, and economic opportunities emerge, reshaping global geopolitics and ...

Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian ...

In the 1700s, the Russians arrived via the Bering Strait ... Russia owned Alaska, while the town’s museum tells of the Battle of Attu fought in the islands – the only Second World War campaign to take ...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged in ...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged ...