Arctic

Houses covered in snow are seen on the coast of a sea inlet of Nuuk, Greenland, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Why Trump covets Greenland

Greenland’s strategic location above the Arctic Circle makes it a focal point in global security and trade debates. It’s also why U.S. President Donald Trump covets it.

Royal Navy F-35B fighters of UK Carrier Strike Group launch from HMS Prince of Wales to intercept a Russian military aircraft, Thursday July 2, 2026. (Chris Sellars/Ministry of Defence via AP)

UK sanctions Russian labs and people over chemical weapons used on Navalny and Skripal

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, left, and Canada's Secretary of State Stephen Fuhr speak to the media after signing an agreement on export of an Over-the-Horizon Radar system at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, June 22, 2026. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia and Canada sign a $1.75B deal to build long-range radar in Canada

Large icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, on Aug. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Think it’s hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., arrives at the chamber of the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

An all-women Senate delegation is heading to the Arctic to reassure US allies

Think it’s warm now? The next five years look even record-breaking hotter, UN weather agency warns

A new World Meteorological Organization report gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. That’s the international safety limit set in 2015.

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Scientists train to dive beneath polar ice as climate change warms the Arctic and Antarctica

AP explains takeaways of Trump’s appearance at WEF

UK and Danish defence ministers discuss stepping up security in the High North and Arctic

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This photo provided by Cascadia Research Collective shows a gray whale swimming in the Willapa River near Willapa Bay, Wash., Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Cascadia Research Collective via AP)

A gray whale that swam 20 miles up a Washington state river is found dead

In this photo provided by Pata Degerman, a diver swims under the ice during a Polar Scientific Diving class in Kilpisjärvi, Finland, March 13, 2024. (Pata Degerman via AP)

The sea beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice holds many secrets. These scientists dive deep to find out

Snow geese take off from a reservoir at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Kleinfeltersville, Pa. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Raucous bird tornado touches down as snow geese make annual flight to Arctic

Glimt's Jens Petter Hauge celebrates after scoring during the Champions League soccer match between Bodo/Glimt and Manchester City in Bodo, Norway, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Fredrik Varfjell/NTB via AP)

What to know about Bodø/Glimt, the tiny Norwegian club from the Arctic that upset Man City

From left, Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, begin a meeting on Capitol Hill as officials from Denmark and Greenland meet with lawmakers from the Arctic Caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Danish official says there’s a ‘fundamental disagreement’ with Trump over Greenland

Houses covered by snow are seen on the coast of a sea inlet of Nuuk, Greenland, on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

FACT FOCUS: Trump repeats false claims when discussing Greenland’s security in the Arctic

Danish military forces participate in an exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in the Arctic Ocean in Nuuk, Greenland, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Danish intelligence report warns of US military threat under Trump

This 2019 aerial photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope. (ConocoPhillips via AP, File)

US appeals court refuses to vacate Biden approval of Alaska’s Willow oil project

Denmark takes over as Arctic Council chair at a time when Trump eyes its territory, Greenland

A boat travels though a frozen sea inlet outside in Nuuk, Greenland, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Arctic sea ice hits record low for its usual peak growth period

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the plenary session of the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk, Russia, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says US push for Greenland rooted in history, vows to uphold Russian interest in the Arctic

A National Weather Service weather balloon sits ready for launch in the Upper Air Inflation Building at the National Weather Service, April 27, 2006, in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Chris Greenberg, File)

Experts say US weather forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts mean fewer balloon launches

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, meets with Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok at the Nunavut Commissioner's official residence in Iqaluit, Nunavut, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s new leader announces $4.2 billion Australian radar purchase

Lisa Muscat carries her dog Zoey to safety after a water main break in Detroit caused massive flooding, triggering evacuations, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Andy Morrison/Detroit News via AP)

What is a polar vortex? US gets a taste of the Arctic this week

Heavy snow falls as a person walks along U.S. Route 42 in Florence, Ky., Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warming

A person walk almost a half mile to their home from a grocery store as steam from an underground vent rises behind them in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting cold

Russia says it scrambled fighter jets to intercept U.S. bomber planes over Barents Sea

Canada's Defense Minister Bill Blair, center, speaks with Estonia's Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, left, and Finland's Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in NATO defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Canada’s defense investment plans put it on track to meet NATO guideline, minister says

This July 8, 2004, photo provided by the United States Geological Survey shows Fish Creek through the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska's North Slope. (David W. Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey via AP)

Biden administration restricts oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska’s petroleum reserve

Norway joins EU nations in banning Russian-registered cars from entering its territory

People work to build a new fence along the border with Russia, next to Storskog, Norway, Wednesday Aug. 23, 2023. Norway is re-building a section of fence in the Arctic along its border with Russia to contain wandering reindeer, Norwegian officials said Thursday, adding 42 animals have crossed into its eastern neighbor in a costly stroll this year. (HT Gjerde Finnmark via AP)

Norway is rebuilding a reindeer fence at the border to stop the animals’ costly strolls into Russia

This photo provided by the City of Nome shows the inner harbor of the Port of Nome, Alaska, on Aug. 11, 2017, where goods at that arrive at the port are then prepared for shipment to villages throughout the region. Shipping lanes that were once clogged with ice for much of the year along Alaska's western and northern coasts have relented thanks to global warming, and the nation's first deep water Arctic port should be operational in Nome by the end of the decade. (Nome Harbormaster Lucas Stotts/City of Nome via AP)

Cruising to Nome: The first U.S. deep water port for the Arctic to host cruise ships, military

FILE - This 2019 aerial photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope. The Biden administration’s approval of the massive oil development in northern Alaska on Monday, March 13, 2023, commits the U.S. to yet another decadeslong crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change. (ConocoPhillips via AP, File)

Alaska oil project approval adds yet another climate concern

This satellite image made available by NOAA shows cloud cover over North America on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 at 1:31 p.m. An arctic blast is bringing extreme cold, heavy snow and intense wind across much of the U.S. this week — just in time for the holidays. (NOAA via AP)

EXPLAINER: Arctic blast sweeps US, causes bomb cyclone

FILE - A male polar bear walks along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Aug. 23, 2010. Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey released Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, found. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canadian polar bears near ‘bear capital’ dying at fast rate

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, dead common murres lie washed up on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. Arctic seabirds unable to find enough food in warmer ocean waters are just one sign of the vast changes in the polar region, where the climate is being transformed faster than anywhere else on Earth. An annual report, to be released Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 by U.S. scientists, also documents rising Arctic temperatures and disappearing sea ice. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Starving seabirds on Alaska coast show climate change peril

FILE - Waves from the Bering Sea splash up on a jetty on Sept. 16, 2022, in Nome, Alaska. Much of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December 2022 warming. Scientists say some of it is random weather from storms and some of it is from low sea ice. The low sea ice is due to climate change. (AP Photo/Peggy Fagerstrom, File)

December serving up baked Alaska and warming most of Arctic

Trial starts in Norway for Putin ally’s son who flew drone

In Norway, Russian man stopped with drones

Forecasters tracking new storm for Alaska’s Arctic coast

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