Shipping companies are also poised to gain through the opening of new Arctic trade routes. The most consequential ... to grow its economy beyond resource extraction, the Kremlin has pledged ...

Past colonial atrocities and catastrophes have not deterred today’s global powers from vying for control of the Arctic.

The opening up of the polar region has become such a pressing issue that a new Arctic ministerial policy group - spanning ...

The Northern Sea Route is a shipping route in the Russian Arctic that runs along Russia's northern shores of the Arctic Ocean seas (the Barents, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, Chukchi and Bering Seas).

Jonathan noted the island occupies a key position along two potential Arctic shipping routes — the Northwest Passage and the Transpolar Sea Route. As sea ice continues to melt, these routes ...