The crew was the first to receive the new medal, which was created last year for missions sailing under Arctic ice.

The Navy has presented its newest honor, Arctic Service Medal, to the crew of a fast-attack submarine for its involvement in ...

The crew of the USS Indiana, a Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine that spent three weeks in the seas near the North Pole ...

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, ...

A new study from experts at the University of Southern California Dornsife has claimed an area deep in the Arctic permafrost is threatening all of us. The team, led by study co-author and ...

A. Franke College of Business at NAU, is part of a global interdisciplinary research team that is examining the effects of cruise ship tourism on Arctic communities. "The basic idea for the ...

Our writer spent 30 hours traveling with arctic wolves and gained a new appreciation for these predators of the tundra. Wolves pick at the remains of a muskox. To get this image, photographer ...

The toxic metal poses a serious threat to the environment and the health of five million people in the Arctic region and beyond. Mercury is a neurotoxin, meaning it can cause serious harm to the ...

The U.S. needs to remain aware of China and Russia’s ambitions to control the Arctic region, even if the public doesn’t realize the full value of the territory, an expert told Fox News Digital.

“There could be this giant mercury bomb in the Arctic waiting to explode,” USC Dornsife’s Josh West, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “Because of the way it behaves chemically, a ...

July marks the midpoint of the summer sea ice melt season, during which ice declines rapidly under the almost constant Arctic sun, and melt ponds form on ice floes. Scientists study melt ponds to ...