According to Rod Downie from WWF, walruses play a key role in keeping the Arctic ecosystem healthy, and their decline can ...
As the Arctic melts, superpowers clash over resources and routes, while India quietly charts its course. Balancing science, diplomacy, and strategy, New Delhi faces a critical test: can it assert ...
China’s rapid Arctic shipping breakthrough is reshaping global trade routes, signalling a strategic shift that challenges ...
The Arctic has rapidly become a major point of confrontation among global powers for several strategic, economic, and security reasons.The region is estimated to hold about 13 percent of the world’s ...
Goa Governor P Ashok Gajapathi Raju has hailed the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) for its role in advancing India’s presence from the South Pole to the Arctic, the Southern Ocean ...
Melting polar ice is unleashing stronger, faster currents, reshaping heat flow, nutrient pathways, and microplastic movement ...
Shipping companies are calling on the federal government to invest in Arctic navigation infrastructure and navigation as ...
Instead of chasing thrills, many are turning to quiet landscapes, cultural knowledge and personal reflection to shape their ...
The Arctic, once a distant and desolate expanse, is now at the epicenter of global competition. March 2025 marked a grim milestone: the smallest maximum ...
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The Battle for the Arctic

For most of the modern era, the Arc­tic barely registered in the strate­gic imagination of the great pow­ers. It was too cold, too distant, and too inhospitable to matter. Policymak­ers treated it as ...
Minerals from a cave in Greenland reveal that the Arctic was warm and had no permafrost, with CO₂ levels similar to today's.