The response comes amid concerns over Russia's continued military build-up in the region and its close ties to China.

Competition between the US, Russia and China is shutting out regional statkeholders and ignoring the interests of Indigenous people.

Extreme weather events have become significantly more common in the Arctic over recent decades, posing a threat to vital polar ecosystems, according to new research by an international team of scientists.

Canada increasingly fears a conflict in the Arctic following the Trump administration’s threats to take over Greenland and its seizure of Venezuela’s oil reserves. Bob Rae, Canada’s recently retired ambassador to the United Nations, said US President Donald Trump had sparked global tensions unseen since the second world war.

Greenland has become a central geopolitical hotspot as US President Donald Trump repeatedly expressed the desire to take control of autonomous territory, citing national security concerns.

The correlation between Arctic wildfires and abnormal snow cover under global warming is of growing concern. A comprehensive quantitative assessment by researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has shown that increasingly frequent seasonal wildland fires across the Arctic in recent years have delayed snow cover formation by at least five days and could lead to a future 18-day reduction of snow cover duration,

Cutting down boreal forest and sinking the felled trees in the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year – but it could come at a c

Arctic marine life is notoriously difficult to study because of its remoteness. But drones have enabled whales to be monitored and diagnosed while being minimally invasive, according to a new study.

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with life.