Nunavut's premier says the foreign affairs minister's recent comments about Arctic sovereignty — that the country must "use it or lose it" — ignores the long Inuit presence in the region.

Communities seeking stronger control over Arctic development are ratcheting up an end-of-session push to get the Legislature to take a stand where they say the state has failed.
But the oil and gas industry, poised through Shell Alaska to launch a much-awaited exploratory drilling program in offshore waters this summer, is pushing back -- hard.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will later this month visit Finland to discuss international issues with her Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb.

Russia will in the near future hand in a bid on the extension of the Okhotsk Sea shelf to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, leader of the country’s Mineral Resource Agency (Rosnedra) confirms.

WASHINGTON — The Minerals Management Service was inconsistent in following federal environmental guidelines as it weighed the risks of oil and gas leases in the North Aleutian Basin, the federal government's internal watchdog said Wednesday.

Over the next seven years, Russia and the United States will shrink both nations’ arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons to 1550 warheads. The deal will not bring along any reduction of nuclear warheads in the Barents Region.

Regional authorities in Murmansk want to limit the free movement of reindeer herds to 100-200 km wide zones.

Norway and Russia might soon solve the 40 year old boundary conflict in the Barents Sea, says Rune Rafaelsen, head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat.

Only hours after President Obama opened up vast tracts of America’s coastline to exploration, Royal Dutch Shell said yesterday that it plans to start drilling for oil in the Arctic Sea, north of Alaska, within weeks.