Meet the warriors trying to teach the west how to fight in the Arctic
Melting sea ice, rising tensions and the relearning of what it will take to master the art of Arctic warfare
Sea ice
‘I know their names, what they eat’: tracking polar bears on Svalbard’s shifting icescapes
For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on meltsWhen Rolf-Arne Ølberg is hanging out of a helicopter with a gun, he needs to…
The method in Trump’s Greenland madness
The climate skeptic is responding to the reality of the Arctic’s melting ice: more resource extraction, faster trade routes, new military bases.
2024 temperatures set to break last year’s global record
The new heat record comes as Donald Trump prepares to return to office and undo the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change.
First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows
Latest findings bring forward possible date and follow dramatic sea ice loss around north pole recorded since 1980s
Russia and China’s cooperation in the Arctic is a rising nuclear threat
While Beijing and Moscow have been working to establish a strategic foothold in the region for more than a decade, Washington and Brussels are just now waking up to the danger.
Shrinking Arctic ice redraws the map for internet cable connections
A new 14,500-km subsea cable in the Arctic could reroute data traffic away from vulnerable choke points.
‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists
When the research team at Vernadsky base are not defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisisWhen Ukraine’s Antarctic research and supply vessel Noosfera left Odesa on its maiden voyage on 28 January 2022, it passed Russian…