A 2019 file photo of a rare-earth mine in South Africa. Rare-earth minerals are used in the manufacture of powerful magnets, which are used in electric vehicles, wind turbines, robotics, and many ...

Northern Canadians see U.S. President Donald Trump’s America as a greater threat to Canada’s Arctic security than Russia or China, as the region attracts greater attention from both polar and ...

The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than ...

Refined tellurium, a rare mineral, in Utah that came from discarded mine tailings. It will be used to make solar panels. The U.S. government took a large step to retrieve critical minerals from mine ...

Fall colors are seen on Aug. 24, 2015, along the Canning River on the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Katrina Liebich/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The U.S. Government ...

The U.S. Coast Guard shadowed two Chinese research ships operating in disputed waters within the Arctic Ocean this week, the Coast Guard announced Wednesday. The icebreakers Ji Di and Zhong Shan Da ...

Cuts in scientific research programs in the Arctic will undermine Arctic security and benefit Russia and China. In 1958, the USS Nautilus became the first submarine to travel beneath the North Pole.

A C-130J Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak responds to a Chinese research vessel operating in the U.S. Arctic as part of Operation Frontier Sentinel Aug. 13, 2025. The aircrew ...

Sweden’s beloved Kiruna Church is concluding a carefully choreographed crawl across the Arctic mining town on Wednesday, completing a two-day, 3-mile journey that successfully saved the 113-year-old ...

STORY: This 113-year-old church in Sweden will embark on a two-day relocation on Tuesday (August 19) to a new site almost 2 miles away. Ground subsidence in Kiruna, caused by the expansion of the ...

A 113-year-old church in Kiruna, in northern Sweden, will embark on a two-day relocation starting on Tuesday (August 19) to a new site nearly two miles away to make way for the expansion of the ...

Researchers predict that future climatic change is likely to cause declines in reindeer abundances and their distribution at rates rarely seen over the last 21,000 years. Reindeer, also known as ...