New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

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The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Russia has revealed the RITM-400 nuclear reactor—its most advanced yet—destined to power the next generation of nuclear icebreakers. At the heart of this initiative is the 'Rossiya', an ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an arm of the Interior Department that manages offshore energy in federal waters, released a map of the agency’s existing and new planning areas last month.

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Russia has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border, according to The Economist.

Left unchecked, Russia “wants to claim the Arctic as theirs,” Adm. Daryle Caudle, Fleet Forces commander, said during a recent online Navy League event.

The archipelago sits in the Arctic Ocean, north from western Russia. Google Translate was used to translate the news releases from the Russian GeographicalSociety.