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The Xue Long 2 (Snow Dragon 2) is on its second Arctic voyage during which it will conduct scientific surveys in the Gakkel Ridge.
August 11, 2021
The discovery can lead to development of new biofuels.
August 09, 2021
‘Sparta’ was probably 1 or 2 months old when she died 28,000 years ago.
August 07, 2021
A video released by the FSB purports to show Mart Lätte seeking sensitive information about Russia's Arctic policy.
August 06, 2021
"There is a huge interest in the international business community," Chief of Rosatom Aleksei Likhachev tells the President.
August 05, 2021
Onboard is a group of experts and volunteers who want to focus on what can be done to clean up accumulated waste in Russia's Arctic territories.
July 28, 2021
The company intends to build several icebreakers and invest 26 billion rubles in its Dudinka seaport.
July 28, 2021
The Russian government intends to boost annual transit volumes on the Northern Sea Route from 1,3 million tons in 2020 to 30 million tons in 2030.
July 23, 2021
An endemic High Arctic bumblebee subspecies, Bombus glacialis, has been discovered by Arkhangelsk researchers on the Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean.
July 19, 2021
The vault will be located 1000 feet below the ground into the permafrost and will be able to withstand the most catastrophic of events.
July 16, 2021
An international agreement banning commercial fishing in the Central Arctic Ocean came into effect June 25, three years after being signed by nine countries, plus the European Union.
June 28, 2021
On June 17th, the Finish Government passed a resolution on Finland’s Arctic strategy in its plenary session.
June 23, 2021
Important to protect the Van Mijen fjord as sea ice provides habitat for seals and polar bears, says Minister of Climate and Environment, Sveinung Rotevatn.
June 21, 2021
The situation in the Arctic was discussed "pretty comprehensively" in the US-Russia top meeting in Geneva.
June 17, 2021
Following Putin's highlighting of the Northern Latitudinal Passage in his recent address to the nation, the major railway project might get a boost.
June 10, 2021
Snowflake-2 science research station will be a five-domes construction to house year-round environmental monitoring and education.
June 10, 2021
The pool brings sport, comfort and joy to Arctic military men serving about as far north as you can get.
June 03, 2021
The Russian telecommunications company says it will review plans to lay a 10,000 km long fiber-optic cable from Kirkenes, Norway, to Japan.
May 28, 2021
After a topsy turvy two years for the Arctic community that saw it navigate everything from a global pandemic and antagonism from the previous U.S. administration over climate change, to the amplifying of tensions between Russia and the West, the Arctic Council returned to form on Thursday, with all eight foreign ministers signing a joint declaration and touting the importance of dialogue and cooperation in the North.
May 20, 2021
The foreign ministers of all eight Arctic countries are gathering in Reykjavik for the Arctic Council ministerial on May 20, a meeting many hope will help turn the page on the last four years of U.S. climate drama within the forum.
May 20, 2021
Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken have agreed to meet on the sidelines of next week’s Arctic Council meeting, the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a Russian-language news release on Wednesday.
May 14, 2021
But we will call for resumption of annual meetings between leaders of the Arctic countries' general staffs, says Russia's Arctic Ambassador Nikolai Korchunov.
May 13, 2021
Iceland, the current chair of the Arctic Council, is getting ready to hand the gavel over to Russia next week, as it prepares for the international forum’s ministerial.
May 10, 2021
At its 25th anniversary, the ministerial meeting on May 20 will seek to outline a strategy for the Arctic Council in times of dramatic climate changes.
May 07, 2021

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