Finland will provide four new icebreakers to America under a $6.1 billion agreement as the U.S. seeks to strengthen Arctic ...

At its nearest point, Alaska is just 2.4 miles from Russia. In the remote Bering Sea, Little Diomede Island (belonging to the US) sits next to Big Diomede Island (part of Russia). In between them lies ...

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 has pledged to deepen Arctic cooperation with China, while Beijing said it was ready to work with Moscow on artificial intelligence (AI), in a continued deepening of ties days after the leaders ...

US Navy P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft have arrived in Norway, bringing new surveillance power to NATO. Flight data ...

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 ...

Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project lifted production to record levels in late August as summer ice conditions opened the Northern Sea Route, allowing additional cargoes to reach Asia, according to ...

“Having been on a ship on the ice, it sounds like you’re driving a 1970s pickup truck down a gravel road ... stern first through the ice in the Arctic summer,” he said. The Northern Sea Route is key ...

Russian energy giant Rosneft may acquire a huge Arctic oil field from its ex-chief Eduard Khudainatov as part of its drive to create a new production region in the north, a source familiar with 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 ...

A Chinese container ship has completed a pioneering journey through the Arctic to a UK port, state-run news agency Xinhua ...

Greenpeace could not have chosen a worse time to set sail for the Russian Arctic. On Sept. 15, as the eco-activists were making their way into the Barents Sea, Russia’s main news networks were ...