Finland urges focus on High North as Russia, a terrorist state, expands military sites near the frontier; EU approves funding ...

Norway’s Svalbard fiber optic cables — a pair carrying vital Arctic satellite data from SvalSat, the world’s largest commercial ground station — thread through waters dangerously close to Russia’s ...

American history is a tale of mastering our physical environment or being mastered by it. We carved a canal through Panama to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The struggle for influence in the Arctic is intensifying as US President Donald Trump continues pressing the case for Greenland to ...

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...

The debate around the Arctic is becoming hotter than ever as US President Donald Trump continues to insist on Greenland becoming part of the United States. But while Trump’s demands that the US take ...

A curt message warning that a polar bear was back, posted on the website of the governor of Svalbard, was a stark reminder that in Longyearbyen, one of the world’s northernmost settlement, humans are ...