The decision,which overturns five decades of protections,sets the stage for what is expected to be a fierce legal battle over the fate of the vast,remote Alaska habitat.
A town in Siberia is likely to have set a record for the hottest temperature in the Arctic Circle,a region that is warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the globe.
Authorities fear the environmental disaster unfolding in the frozen wastelands of the Arctic Circle now threatens to pollute the ocean.
The cluster of islands in the icy high north is a visa-free zone – but that doesn’t make it trouble free. What’s so special about Svalbard?
The blaze started in the ship's power plant while the vessel was moored at the Arctic port of Murmansk for an overhaul.
Greenland's leaders want to use global interest in the Arctic island aroused by the US President's eye-catching offer of a sale to stimulate investment and earn more from US military activity there.
It started as an idea and ended up in an international spat. What prompted US President Trump to want to to buy Greenland? And was it Denmark's to sell?
If Trump does want to buy a large island,he could make an offer for Australia.
Humanity is in a race to reverse the destruction of life in our oceans and the wider world before threats get out of control,scientist and explorer Sylvia Earle says.
A heatwave that smashed records in five European countries is now over Greenland,accelerating the melting of its ice sheet and causing massive Arctic ice loss.
A photo of melted ice sheets in Greenland looks somehow alluring – the gleaming ice intercut with dazzlingly blue water is hardly the image of hell on Earth it actually connotes.