Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Growing up in Canada, I always considered the Arctic part of my ...

U.S. Air Force bombers have returned to their American base following a series of NATO exercises to test alliance readiness to the threat posed by Russia, as a Newsweek map shows the strategic Arctic ...

THE BARENTS SEA is not a hospitable place for visitors. “Frequent snow storms…blotted out the land for hours on end,” wrote an unlucky British submariner sent there to snoop around during the cold war ...