SINCE 2020 foreign military aircraft have buzzed North American airspace 95 times. Of these incursions in the “air-defence identification zone”, 91 were in the north-west, around Alaska. Russia and ...
GROWING OUR ARCTIC FLEET: President Donald J. Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum to authorize the construction of up to four Arctic Security Cutters (ASCs) abroad to address urgent national ...
The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than ...
Russia in the Arctic is a "grave concern" to NATO, Iceland's foreign minister has said, as Moscow forges ahead with its military buildup and economic plans for one of the most austere, but ...
Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley patrols the Aleutian Islands near Great Sitkin. (PO3 Dale Arnould/Coast Guard) While the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
In February, Michigan Technological University's Great Lakes Research Center hosted marine technology startup company Seatrec, providing a test site for its prototype Arctic Power Station — a novel ...
The Arctic is "fast becoming an area of intense focus for geopolitical competition", said Foreign Secretary David Lammy during his recent visit to the region. Russia has long eyed control over the ...
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 the ...
The Arctic has long filled humans with awe, but there are now profoundly worrying signals coming from the frozen landscape at the top of our planet, and scientists are deeply concerned about its ...
Correction: In this piece, we incorrectly described Alaska Natives as Native Alaskans. The transcript has been updated. We regret the error. Since the 1980s ...
The Arctic is quickly becoming a theater of global competition—a development that has accelerated since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In order to protect critical undersea communications ...
The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can ...