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Experts worry tensions could spill into the polar region and potentially affect science and security

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz announced that the new Polar Security Cutter will be named Sentinel.

"You see issues like Crimea and Ukraine, in particular, and other areas now pressuring this bubble, this balloon, that was around the Arctic," U.S. Arctic Research Commission Chair Michael Sfraga

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Coast Guard Chief Says No Room to Accelerate Icebreaker Program

Naming ceremony at Alaska Federation of Natives’ annual convention honors leadership to ‘ensure our shores, waters, airspace and country are kept safe from incursions by non-Arctic countries’

Whatever they were doing, it got the attention of the Russian military.

There's more challenges to the Arctic then its weather.

Russia’s ambition to remain the Arctic superpower is propelling its all-out effort to guard its economic interests there with broad territorial claims over waterways and a continued military build-up in a region the United States often ignored, an expert on Arctic defense and security said Wednesday. Troy Bouffard, director of the Arctic Security and Defense […]