The Arctic region is becoming a theater for competition between states over its resources and geopolitical advantages. This ...

The aurora borealis draws thousands of visitors to the Far North each year. A new play tells the lights’ tales from the ...

Members of Congress agree that the administration needs to consider the concerns of indigenous communities when taking actions on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic. There is just disagreement on whose ...

"If this trend continues, it could have a number of consequences," said Robert Björk, an Arctic ecosystem researcher at the ...

Indigenous people from Arctic communities are calling for environmental protection in the runup to this month’s round of negotiations aimed at securing a global treaty to end plastic pollution. U.N.

"Climate change in the Arctic is not limited to that region alone; it affects countries around the world, including the ...

Despite its remote location, the Arctic has become the world’s toxic sink. Air and water currents transport hazardous chemicals from industrialised areas like the EU to the polar regions, where they ...

The role of indigenous peoples in forming environmental policies / Charles Johnson -- The cultural context of wildlife management in the Canadian North / Peter Collings -- 'Aboriginal nations': ...

Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. But archaeologists have been puzzling over whether the artwork really shows the infamous ...

People often eagerly discuss the end of the Arctic. Yet realizing that the Arctic Circle Assembly may have peaked could hit a bit too close to home. On my way out of the Arctic Circle Assembly on its ...

In Utqiagvik, Alaska, the Iñupiat rely on whaling and subsistence hunting for the bulk of their diet, a practice dating back thousands of years. Powered by mineral wealth, the Iñupiat-run North Slope ...