Atle Staalesen

Aid is on its way to icebreaker struggling near North Pole

After having set historical record in winter ice, Russian icebreaker «Kapitan Dranitsyn» requests assistance for return voyage to mainland.
March 04, 2020

Russia might reopen airport near border to Norway

Talks are in process over possible flights to Korzunovo, the abandoned air field controlled by the Northern Fleet.
March 02, 2020

Freezing cold as 16,000 NATO soldiers kickstart Arctic war game

Northern Norway is battle zone in this year’s major allied Arctic exercise.
March 02, 2020

Russian Arctic shipping up 430 percent in three years

A total of 31,5 million tons of goods was shipped on the Northern Sea Route in 2019.
February 28, 2020

On oil company’s Arctic map is pipeline across Gulf of Ob

Gazprom Neft intends to build a more than hundred kilometers long natural gas pipeline from its Novy Port field in Yamal.
February 27, 2020

Coronavirus comes to Arctic

A woman from the north Norwegian town of Tromsø has tested positive for the coronavirus.
February 26, 2020

Silent climate protest in Arkhangelsk

One after another, four young environmental activists lined up in front of the local government building.
February 26, 2020

Tourists set course for new visit center in Novaya Zemlya

Visitors will soon be welcomed to the northernmost tip of the closed and militarized Russian archipelago.
February 26, 2020

Proposed ban sends shockwave over Russian Arctic oil

Shippers of Arctic oil face serious consequences as Russian authorities mull ban on ship-to-ship reloading operations.
February 25, 2020

Plenty of more oil in Barents Sea, says petroleum authority

New field discoveries have been scarce, but the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate still believes that there is more than 3 billion standard cubic meters of oil equivalents hiding under the far northern sea bed.
February 24, 2020

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Atle is journalist and Publisher of the Independent Barents Observer.

In 2002, he founded the Barents Observer. He was editor until 2009 and later worked as journalist and project coordinator for several European cross-border cooperation projects. In late 2015, following a conflict over editorial rights, he re-established the Barents Observer as an independent and non-profit stock company along with the rest of the newspaper crew.  

Atle has a degree in Russian studies from the University of Oslo and studied journalism at the Moscow State University.

atle@thebarentsobserver.com
@atlestaalesen