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 ...

BC’s impact is particularly pronounced in the Arctic. When the sooty particles settle on snow or ice, they reduce the albedo of these surfaces, meaning they reflect less light and so melt faster.

For non-Arctic powers such as India, the implications of a militarised Arctic are serious. An increasingly militarised Arctic demands new thinking from New Delhi. June 3, 2025 e-Paper.

In anticipation of a peace deal, back-channels are flowing. Western investment in Russia’s Arctic resources would undermine China’s influence in the region You can save this article by ...

For Trump, expansion in the Arctic can be a way to resell cheap energy or buy minerals and rare earth metals from Russia, experts said. Cooperation with Russia would also be a way to stave off the ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Iqaluit in Canada’s High North, supposedly about Arctic security, was nothing more than a carefully staged photo-op. Carney has spent his ...

Now, 85 percent of the Arctic territory’s population has also expressed opposition to coming under Washington’s rule. Trump’s ambitions have been noted elsewhere as well.

The Arctic has lost about 12% of its ice every decade since satellite records began in 1979, equaling about 1.16 million square miles of ice (3 million square kilometers),an area bigger than ...

The Arctic is the early warning system for climate change and the loss of sea ice is a clear sign it’s in trouble, scientists say. It should be reaching its annual maximum levels of ice at this ...

Canada's spy agency warns that colliding global developments make the Arctic an 'attractive, strategic and vulnerable destination' for foreign adversaries.

The Arctic Ocean is Earth's northernmost body of water. It encircles the Arctic, and flows beneath it. Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by ice throughout the year—although that is starting to ...

The Arctic is one of the coldest and least populated regions on Earth, much of it covered by ice. But in recent years it has become one of the most important sites of geopolitical tensions — and ...