The creative performance was delivered in partnership with Greenpeace International from the organisation’s ship Arctic Sunrise. The singer songwriters have joined forces in the fragile Arctic ...

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The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

We cannot let that happen." Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise sailing through Norwegian Sea. Picture: Bianca Vitale/Greenpeace/PA Briony Venn, Greenpeace UK oceans campaign, said: "Deep sea mining ...

SVALBARD, Norway—Nestled high above the Arctic Circle, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is home to hundreds of polar bears and boasts prime views of the Northern Lights. Now the territory ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

The Arctic summer sea ice minimum also stayed low this year, at 4.28 million km² (1.65 million mi²), making it the 7th lowest minimum in the satellite record. So far, 2012 saw the record minimum ...

A bold plan to pump seawater over the frozen Arctic Ocean could offer humanity a final chance to save the region’s vanishing sea ice. Field trials conducted this year in the Canadian Arctic to ...

Russia has already dispatched a record amount of oil through its section of the Arctic Circle this year, expediting cargo deliveries to China in what is an environmentally sensitive area. At least ...

Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project has less than a month left to send liquefied-gas cargoes across the Northern Sea Route toward Asia before the passage closes down for its tankers until ...