Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said it was possible to secure a deal with Norway over a disputed Barents Sea border region, whose delineation could unlock access to oil and gas resources.

According to chinadialogue.net, China is paying increasing attention to the melting of the ice in the Arctic Ocean as a result of climate change. The prospect of the Arctic being navigable during summer months, leading to both shorter shipping routes and access to untapped energy resources, has impelled the government to allocate more resources to Arctic research. Chinese officials have also started to think about what kind of policies would help the country to benefit from an ice-free Arctic environment.

Climate change and the industrial development it allows in the Arctic region threaten the way of life of the indigenous peoples of that region and led their leaders to come together and issue a declaration in Moscow calling on business, governments and the international community to take steps now to protect their communities from destruction.

Russia may become a leader in the protection of the Arctic environment and northern indigenous peoples, the head of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Arctic peoples and their cultural inheritance are vulnerable to rising global temperatures, the Russian president's adviser on climate change said at the Fifth Arctic Leaders' Summit in Moscow on Wednesday.

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN—Led by Barack Obama, the world's leaders have recently moved the hands of the nuclear Doomsday Clock away from midnight.

Last month the commercial cargo ship MCL Trader once again sailed all along the coast of Norway towards Murmansk loaded with highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods from Poland.

WASHINGTON, DC, Apr. 12 -- The US Environmental Protection Agency issued Shell Offshore Inc. a second federal air-quality permit on Apr. 9 to operate this summer off Alaska’s coast, this time in the Beaufort Sea. The permit is similar to one EPA’s Region 10 district office issued to Shell Offshore on Apr. 1 for Chukchi Sea operations.

As the days lengthen and the short Arctic summer looms on the horizon, an annual ritual has been taking place to sort out who does what in the seas around Alaska’s northern coastline during upcoming brief period when sea ice retreats towards the northern horizon.

OTTAWA — Using traditional Inuit weather knowledge passed down through generations, environmental scientists have uncovered new data on Arctic climate change.