It will monitor and regulate ship traffic on the Northern Sea Route.

52 polar bears are walking around the corners in the town of Belushya Guba on Novaya Zemlya scaring people from leaving their houses.

There is dramatic urgency in this matter, says Peter Winsor, Arctic program director at the WWF.

We Sámi people manage the life cycles of natural resources and produce little or no wastes. That is what I call a Smart Arctic, President of Norway’s Sámi Parliament Aili Keskitalo underlined as she today opened the Arctic Frontiers.

A global heatwave is gaining force and the Russian government appears to acknowledge that its Arctic will be among the regions worst hit. But the country’s response is not combat of climate change, but rather adaption to the new reality.

A new sea port with railway connection could potentially handle up to ten percent of container trade between China and northern Europe, local planners in Kirkenes say

Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide, says the Arctic Council is one of the most important tools to retain peace in the high north.

Calling it a “model for promoting fraternity between nations,” a group of international academics has nominated the Arctic Council for the Nobel Peace Prize.

A record-beating 9,74 million tons of goods was transported on the Russian Arctic route in 2017. That resulted in a very good year for Murmansk and several other northern Russian ports.

It will be located in the settlement of Amderma and be of importance for security along the Northern Sea Route, says Russian Emergency Minister Vladimir Puchkov.

State nuclear power company Rosatom invests big sums in the construction of a new dry dock and reactor repair complex.

But there are exceptions in the new legislation.