More from: Arctic

Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg on Friday floated out the second of the new generation powerful icebreakers aimed for the Northern Sea Route.

A €85 million Norwegian research project is to help explore the northernmost parts of the Barents Sea. «We have big need for more knowledge about these areas», the University of Tromsø says.

As Russian Arctic ice shrinks to this year’s lowest, a big number of ships are moving in.

The order is signed: The nuclear-powered icebreaker «Soviet Union» will be cut up and recycled.

You might think that there is more than enough fish in the northern waters near Arkhangelsk. However, this time the fish delivery came from afar.

In a move to decentralise state agencies out of Stockholm, Arctic coordination goes north to the town where the country’s fleet of icebreakers have homeport.

Loaded with Norwegian gas, Russia’s new LNG carrier «Christophe de Margerie» makes it across the Arctic shipping route in 6,5 days.

On Monday, «Xue Long» is doing research in the Norwegian Sea, sailing a back-and-forth pat half-way between Bjørnøya and Jan Mayen.

Captain Yuri Kuchiev’s historical voyage to the top of the world in 1977 almost stalled in thick ice. This week’s 40 years anniversary voyage will smoothly make it through an ice cap melting at record speed.

Highly priced and difficult to get. Cloudberries are not only the delicious tasting magic symbol of the north, it is also some of the healthiest thing you can eat.

Average sea ice extent for the month of July ended up the fifth lowest since satellite records began in 1979, according to the latest report released by the Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).