Recognizing the Arctic's strategic importance, the U.S. military has focused on growing its cold-weather operational capabilities in the region over the last decade. The U.S. Marine Corps, through ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ­idealistic scientists and engineers saw the vast Arctic region as a place of ...

However, its humidity data is particularly valuable for Arctic weather forecasting, as water vapor levels can change rapidly in this region. Since it was only launched a month ago on 16 August ...

A U.S. military drone's ability to fly deep into the strategic and contested Arctic region has been successfully demonstrated, the Northrop Grumman Corporation announced Thursday. The MQ-4C Triton ...

At Pello, around 30 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the day's high reading of 22.2 degrees Celsius was ... A whole series of temperature records have been broken in Lapland, including the ...

The collapse of cooperation between Russia and its Arctic peers has conveniently cemented Beijing’s position as Moscow’s first partner in the region. With China-Russia relations once lionized ...

With this ensemble modeling approach, the team demonstrated that by the mid to late 21st century anthropogenic permafrost thawing in the Subarctic and Arctic regions will be quite extensive. In ...

130 soldiers deploy to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in response to Russian, Chinese probes of Arctic region Russia sends patrol aircraft around Japan as it trains with China on seas below ...

Around mid-month, the Antarctic winter sea ice approaches its highest extent, while the Arctic summer thaw melts the region’s sea ice to its lowest extent. Historically, the sea ice that extends ...