Photographer Amos Chapple took a "night-mode" enabled smartphone camera to document life in Russia’s north through the polar night. This is Murmansk, the largest city in the Arctic Circle. The ...

Ambassador insists his country would be forced to act if armed conflict broke out on the strategic-important polar island ...

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 ...

Who controls the top of the planet depends on where you draw the lines. Although no one “owns” the North Pole, countries with land ringing the Central Arctic Ocean already have rights ...

Earlier this year, scientists revealed that Earth’s magnetic north pole is shifting faster than anyone had predicted. Polar shifts aren’t uncommon and we’ve long known that Earth’s ...

Read more: The former head of the Coast Guard says Russia has 'all the pieces on the chessboard' in the Arctic — but the US has 'only got a couple of pawns' "I said, 'Au contraire, it's a 40 ...

Updated at 1:29 p.m. ET. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin played the eco-warrior in Russia's Arctic on Thursday, helping scientists track endangered polar bears and calling for a cleanup of the region.

If the North Pole belongs to us, then we’re responsible for keeping it accessible, even in the face of global politics and global warming. Glasbrenner’s guide, the Polar explorer Eric Larsen ...

It’s the coldest temperature Russia has recorded in two decades. In ideal conditions, Phillips explained, the polar vortices stay over the North and South Poles, ...

Russia's most prominent jailed opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, heaped ironic praise on Tuesday on the polar conditions at the prison north of the Arctic Circle where he was moved to shortly ...