The route’s Russian operator is building more nuclear-powered icebreakers, as it anticipates a significant rise in voyages by ...

China’s support for Russia is fuelling Western ... to Beijing in May the two countries vowed to “promote the Arctic route as an important international transport corridor” and encourage ...

Sandwiched between Finland and Russia 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Kirkenes rests near the opening of the most viable polar shipping route linking China to Europe. As the sea ice retreats ...

Russia, which controls this route, sees the Arctic as a good opportunity to boost its economic development. As for China, it views the Northern Sea Route as an essential component of its Belt and ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja visited the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard ...

Norwegian royals' visit to Svalbard highlights the Arctic's growing strategic importance amidst rising global interest from ...

As Arctic ice melts, global powers seize new opportunities to extract oil, speed up trade and boost their military presence.

The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between ...

China is interested in wider use of the Northern Sea Route amid rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, Russian Far East and Arctic Minister Alexei Chekunkov told Izvestia. Nevertheless, the ...

Secret Russian Intelligence Document: Russia’s domestic security agency says that China is spying on the Russian military’s ...