While deployed, the icebreaker marked its 50th year of service and freed the cruise ship Scenic Eclipse II from dense ice, among other operations.

At a massive shipyard in North Vancouver, Canadian workers grind metal beams for a powerful new icebreaker crucial to cementing the country's presence in the increasingly contested Arctic.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will spend billions on forward operating locations in the North to assert ...

The exercise is the latest to train service members for operations in the strategically important Arctic region.

The Danish military last year took us inside its Arctic operation as it set out to prove to the U.S. and Russia that it is capable of defending Greenland. Photo: Eve Hartley/ Wall Street Journal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s navy has grand ambitions about blowing more things up. Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee is pushing to ...

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, with average temperatures increasing by about 4°C in the last four decades. A new study, led by the University of Exeter, shows peatlands have ...

NATO officially launched its Arctic Sentry mission on February 11 in a bid to improve the military posture of the alliance in the Arctic region. The move follows recent tensions between NATO allies ...

ONTARIO, CANADA – Freezing conditions have caused an incredible icy landscape on a boat traveling Lake Huron in Canada. Freezing temperatures have plagued North American cities all winter long as ...

The large Roman merchant vessel is believed to have sailed from North Africa Italian Ministry of Culture/X Italian police stumbled upon an ancient Roman merchant ship at the bottom of the Ionian Sea ...

Recent attention has focused on Greenland as a focal point of Arctic strategy, a reminder that geography once treated as peripheral now sits squarely within the logic of continental defense. A similar ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable. The ...