Spitsbergen is the largest island in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, located roughly halfway between the North Pole and the European mainland. Svalbard is governed under a 1920 treaty giving ...

MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. The crews of deck-based MiG-29K fighters have gone on experimental combat duty on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic for the first time, the Northern Fleet’s ...

Professor Bruno Tremblay explained that high-resolution models show thick ice flowing southward through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, accelerating melting. The transport of LIA sea ice into ...

The Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago has a wealth of potential oil and gas reserves. Canada asserts sovereignty in this area but countries, including the U.S., suggest the ...