More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

Rarely in the news, the Arctic has returned to the spotlight following the return of Donald Trump as US president. But who ...

a brilliant-green exclamation point on a visit to Arctic Sweden. Dave VanderWerp has spent more than 20 years in the automotive industry, in varied roles from engineering to product consulting ...

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not so long ago—just a few days, perhaps—the icy water sluicing around my bare legs was snow on a rocky ...