Jon Fresch / U.S. Army Paul Bierman, Undark Magazine In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet ...

The division is known as the Arctic Angels and they are normally stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Fort Wainwright in Alaska. “As the number of adversarial exercises increases ...

Recognizing the Arctic's strategic importance, the U.S. military has focused on growing its cold-weather operational capabilities in the region over the last decade. The U.S. Marine Corps, through ...

The show of force between the United States and Russia continued to heat up as they conducted power projections in the air and on land around the freezing Arctic region. The series of military ...

Also Tuesday, Trump seemed to confuse the name of an air base in Afghanistan with the controversy over whether to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. “We just have the best ...

Vladimir Putin is raising the spectre of the Cold War as he threatens to resume testing at a remote Arctic facility where the Soviets detonated the most powerful nuclear bomb to ever exist.

It is an odd place. Way above the Arctic Circle—a mere 814 miles from the North Pole—Longyearbyen, in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, is home to only 2,400 people but more than 1.3 million seeds.

Both were commissioned in December last year from the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk and have since sailed the White- and Barents Seas. Sailing from the Barents Sea under the Arctic ice cap to Kamchatka ...

The Arctic is not the most hospitable place on Earth. Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to help them thrive there, and one of the region’s top predators is no ...

Portions of three Army units have been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese air and sea probes into the Arctic region, service officials said.

The briefing note recommended that soldiers deployed on that exercise with the U.S. be “loaned” 500 of the army’s old Arctic sleeping bags — the ones the new system was meant to replace.