Canada's Inuit and the fur industry will appeal a court ruling Thursday that rejected a challenge to the European Union's ban on imports of Canadian seal products.

Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil has tested oil spill preparedness plans ahead of the imminent drilling operations in the Barents Sea, and say all is set for drilling of new exploration wells in the vulnerable area.

NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Global climate change is creating unprecedented challenges to protecting diverse ecosystems in the arctic regions, a U.N. environmental official said in Japan.

The Russian government last week adopted a strategy for the Antarctica. Now a strategy for the Arctic is in the pipeline.

Nunavut is closely watching an Arctic oil and gas search unfolding off the coast of neighboring Greenland, where at least one exploration company says it has found oil and gas.

Keith Peterson likens the Government of Nunavut, facing massive infrastructure needs and little money to pay for them, to an old car.

Warming continues to shrink the snow and ice cover that defines the Arctic, signaling the region's shift to a new climate pattern, scientists said yesterday.

A new film Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change documents the knowledge of residents in Canada’s Inuit communities

Giant, flat icebergs are moving south from Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island down Baffin Bay toward northern Baffin Island, a potential threat to Arctic wildlife, environment and marine traffic.

Norway and Finland are the countries that will be least affected by climate change, while Bangladesh and India are most at risk, according to a recently released index.