As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

F or bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times ...

The announcement shows just how shrewdly the U.S. has gamed the international system. Since 1982, a United Nations agreement ...

As Arctic ice melts, new trade routes, mineral riches, and economic opportunities emerge, reshaping global geopolitics and ...

Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy ... Norway and Russia disagree about fishing rights in waters around the Spitsbergen/Svalbard Archipelago. Traffic and commercial activity ...

Monitoring of straits It also provides a position from which to monitor and control the Bering Strait ... methods of hunting and fishing. Mining operation could have detrimental effects on ...

This might have had something to do with there being a state-registered organization known as the Alaska Salmon Alliance lobbying for commercial salmon fishing interests in ... Report for Alaska’s ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut ...