With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the ... into barrels and shipped back to Europe. The right whale population ...

passing Russia and Norway to connect China to Europe via the Arctic Ocean and the North Sea. The Polar route is rapidly becoming viable (at least in the northern summer) as global warming shrinks ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies ... other Arctic nations and kicked the international rush to map out claims to the seabed into high gear. Last month, the United ...