This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.

The Canadian Armed Forces face this challenge on a larger scale. Its soldiers are almost entirely based outside of the Arctic ...

The Trump administration has signaled the military won't be focusing on climate change, a move that follows decades of ...

Vice President JD Vance this week will embark on a trip to Greenland, the massive but sparsely populated Arctic island with ...

Russia has spent decades fortifying its Arctic holdings, building military bases, expanding its nuclear submarine fleet and ...

Geopolitical rivalries are intensifying in the Arctic but Russia is willing to cooperate with foreign partners, including ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases.

Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance will visit Pituffik Space Base, the US military's base in Greenland dating back to ...

It is also an area of military competition, where defence analysts say Russia has built ... by reopening Soviet-era bases and modernising its navy. The US sees the Arctic as crucial for national ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland ... Putin noted that Russia is worried about NATO’s activities in the Arctic and will respond ...

US president says ‘we will go as far as we have to’ to get Greenland, but others are interested in the Arctic, too.

Ice smothers the remote base for most of the year ... For context, Russia built 475 structures across its Arctic military strongholds from 2014 to 2022. Its prized northern fleet operates 22 ...