Security threats to the Canadian Arctic emanate from outside the region but target or affect the region itself ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

News about Arctic Regions, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Sea Ice Analysis Tool Analyze monthly-averaged or daily sea ice extent and concentration via interactive maps. Plot monthly ice extent anomalies, map sea ice concentration anomalies, and more.

News about Arctic Regions, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the Arctic Ocean when Earth's average temperature was 4.5˚C warmer than ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

The route’s Russian operator is building more nuclear-powered icebreakers, as it anticipates a significant rise in voyages by Chinese companies.

New research is challenging the ongoing debate about the Arctic's glacial past, suggesting that the region may never have ...

The Circum-Arctic permafrost and ground ice map is available via ftp in ESRI Shapefile format and Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) format. See the Format section for an explanation of the ...

Fridtjof Nansen was an explorer and scientist. Ten research institutions have followed in his footsteps in polar regions.