Huang’s company, Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group, denied reports in the Norwegian news media that it wants to buy land in the high Arctic, and said it is focusing instead on plans for a luxury ...

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, feasting on seals and occasionally other sea mammals. Its hunting skills ...

In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Civil servants ‘pushed back’ plan to buy Arctic land The then-foreign minister Tobias Ellwood told The i Paper that he proposed the purchase of a stretch of land in Norway’s Svalbard ...

Arctic Has Potential To Alter Earth's Climate: Arctic Land And Seas Account For Up To 25 Percent Of World's Carbon Sink. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

Alaska Natives praise Trump administration's 28,000-acre land transfer that could enable resource development previously blocked by Biden's environmental concerns.

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

In a last-minute change, the Trump administration cut about 30 percent of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge territory that it plans to auction off for oil exploration.

For millennia, Arctic land ecosystems have acted as a deep-freeze for the planet’s carbon, holding vast amounts of potential emissions in the permafrost.

Groundwater on the newly uncovered land is seeping up, and bringing “ancient” methane to the surface with it, the Post writes. Scientists found high concentrations of methane in 122 of the 123 ...

The Arctic, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, holds about 20 percent of the world’s untapped reserves, worth some $20 trillion. In 2002, Russia made a claim to a U.N. commission for a ...

“We know that drilling for oil in the Arctic Refuge would hurt the land and the caribou.” If not for the wealth of oil, the area known by many as “the last great wilderness” might be left alone.