Russia secretly used front companies to buy Western technology and erect a surveillance net in the Arctic where its submarines operate, an investigation shows.

Hidden behind shell companies, Russia acquired advanced Western technologies to build a secret underwater network designed to protect its nuclear weapons. The incident raises questions about Europe's ability to prevent the export of sensitive technologies to Moscow.

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the main settlement on Svalbard, this is the world’s ...

Interested eyes are watching for the first movements of Russia's shadow fleet of liquefied natural gas carriers through the Arctic passage of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) this summer as sea ice coverage appears to be delaying the start of sailings.

The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route across the top of the world, and it’s only made possible by climate change.