Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US secretary of state John Kerry will attend the May 14-15 Arctic Council in Kiruna, Sweden.
A new study of some of the world's most remote islands show there are dramatic climate changes since detailed research by Soviet scientists 55 years ago.
China is getting closer to European markets due to 'monumental change' wrought by global warming off Siberia's Arctic coast.
The Russian government has ordered the evacuation of North Pole-40 Arctic Station.
Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.
Record sighting of Narwhal at 88 degrees north by Russian scientific expedition.
The Arctic was at the centre of world's attention in recent years, with the Nordic countries now on a steady, but a serious race for dominance in the region.
Besides, it is impossible to halt global warming which has been underway for many decades, insists the president.
Challenge to polar doom warning from respected international expert Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University.