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The whale that this week stranded on the shores near Longyearbyen, Svalbard, should have been used as attraction for tourists, says local researcher Bjørn Frantzen.

The biggest hole is now more than 60 meters wide and 200 meter deep.

Arctic Council secretariat and Institute of Marine Research team up under the same roof as other key Norwegian Arctic science- and management stakeholders.

Science expedition sails north to find link between formation of Arctic clouds and record heatwave and drought on mainland Sweden.

It will be owned by nuclear power company Rosatom and serve the northernmost mine in the world.

The strongman from Murmansk gets key position in developing Russia's Arctic infrastructure.

Icebreaker «Aleksandr Sannikov» will open the way to the company’s oil terminal in the Gulf of Ob.

Mats Forsberg has sailed expeditions on Svalbard since 1982 and is shocked by all plastic waste he found this year.

An improvement of the ministry structure is needed in order to meet the requirements of the President, says Minister of Natural Resources Dmitry Kobylkin as he announces the establishment of a new Arctic department.

In the course of history, Sámi have ended up in a variety of places for the sake of promoting tourism. A family from Utsjoki, Finland, even visited Dictator Franco’s palace in 1965.

As the country prepares an overhaul of its lucrative crab quotas, Fishery Agency leader Ilya Shestyakov sends a signal to neighbouring Norway.

An Arctic Council agreement to facilitate scientific cooperation between the world’s eight circumpolar countries officially comes into effect on Wednesday.