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North Pole campers pack up after shortest ice drift ever

The ice became too thin and the cracks too many. This year’s Barneo North Pole base existed only 12 days.
April 26, 2018

Russia makes new big cuts in Arctic spending

The country’s Ministry of Economic Development wanted 209 billion rubles (€3.1 billion) for the new national Arctic Program. It might get only 12 billion (€177 million).
July 05, 2017

Finland commissions study on new Arctic railway

It will look at possible economic benefits and be made in cooperation with Norwegian transport authorities, says Finnish Transport and Communications Minister Anne Berner.
July 04, 2017

Bigger cruise ships, more tourists sail into Svalbard waters

The MSC «Preziosa» this week brought more that 3,500 tourists to Longyearbyen. It is the biggest ship ever in the Norwegian Arctic port.
June 23, 2017

Putin: Our future lies in the Arctic

Russia’s power and opportunity grow as we expand into the Arctic, the president underlined in yesterday’s Direct Line press conference.
June 16, 2017

110 thousand tons of scrap metal will be removed from Arctic town Amderma

Clean-up personnel are up for a titanic mission as 53 thousand square meters of tundra lands are to be swept free of rusting Soviet-era barrels, abandoned machinery and oil pollution.
June 13, 2017

In Putin’s Year of Ecology, also nuclear weapon soldiers have to contribute

94 soldiers from the 12th Main Directorate flies to Novaya Zemlya to collect scrap metal at the nuclear weapons test site.
June 02, 2017

Ice-locked ships start moving from Pevek after 5 months of captivity

With the break-up of ice in the Russian east Arctic comes freedom for three ships and their crews.
May 30, 2017

As Arctic weather goes nuts, world meteorologists take on more joint forecasting

A two-year joint effort is to help the World Meteorological Organization enhance Arctic observation, modeling and weather prediction.
May 26, 2017

Anniversary voyage 40 years after «Arktika» conquered the North Pole

On August 17, 1977, nuclear powered icebreaker «Arktika» became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
May 24, 2017

Helsinki invites Oslo to an Arctic journey by rail

As Finland takes over the chair of Arctic Council, it addresses its Nordic neighbor about the grand development of a railway connection to the shores of the Barents Sea.
May 23, 2017

Amid decline in regional freight, a new shipping company opens in Arkhangelsk

The new Arctic Shipping Company intends to take a share of shipments along the Northern Sea Route.
May 19, 2017

Less seals on the menu for hungry polar bears

More bad climate news for the largest predator of the Arctic.
May 18, 2017

Nightless nights – Midnight sun is back

From tonight, the sun doesn’t set at this panorama view in Finnmark until July 26.
May 17, 2017

First Arctic clean-up expedition of the year heads towards Franz Josef Land

At least 8,000 tons of Soviet-era industrial wastes and scrap metal will this summer be removed from four islands in the Arctic archipelago.
May 16, 2017

The reindeer island that disappeared

Following mass deaths of animals, the once powerful cooperative managing the reindeer flocks in the island of Kolguyev shuts down.
May 15, 2017

Biggest danger to Arctic business is protectionism says Arctic Economic Council chair

The Arctic remains an area of vast opportunity but the changing political climate is creating challenges for northern communities and businesses wanting to tap into that potential, says the new chair of the Arctic Economic Council.
May 13, 2017

Moscow slashes Arctic investments - RBC

Funding for activities under the new Russian Arctic Program will be cut by 75%, sources tell the news company.
May 12, 2017

Arctic nations sign scientific cooperation agreement

Canada and its seven Arctic neighbours signed a binding science cooperation agreement that aims to make it easier for the scientists from all eight circumpolar countries to collaborate with each other in their research in the rapidly changing region.
May 12, 2017

Arctic Council presents united front as Finland takes over from U.S.

The run up to this week’s Arctic Council ministerial was dominated by just how U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would navigate his first Arctic Council ministerial as chair. But at the meeting on Thursday, the forum presented a united front with Tillerson pledging continued U.S. commitment to the intergovernmental forum.
May 12, 2017

This town aims for global lead in understanding of Arctic ocean

A new research center in Tromsø, Norway, will take on the role of oceans in Arctic development.
May 11, 2017

Arctic Council ministerial – View from Finland

The United States hands the Arctic Council’s two-year rotating chairmanship to Finland on May 11th in Fairbanks, Alaska.
May 11, 2017

Business vs. environment debate hurts Northeners, says Arctic Economic Council

When it comes to Arctic development, it’s time to move on from old ‘business vs. the environment’ debates and think about Northerners says the outgoing U.S. chair of the Arctic Economic Council.
May 10, 2017

Don’t forget the people, says Arctic governor

What will be the benefits for locals? Yakutian leader Yegor Borisov asks as Moscow invests big money in Arctic infrastructure projects and the development of the Northern Sea Route.
May 10, 2017

Arctic Council ministerial – View from the United States

In the run up to the ministerial, Eye on the Arctic checked in with a series of experts from around the North for their views on what we should all be watching for in Fairbanks, and from the Arctic Council, in the months ahead. Today, we bring you our conversation with Mia Bennett, Eye on the Arctic blogger and founder of the Cryopolitics Arctic news and analysis blog.
May 10, 2017

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