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Arctic Council members met in Moscow this week, and experts agree that Russia’s growing rift with the West has not put a stopper in on-going cooperation to protect the Arctic. But increasing tension could jeopardize the project – and the future wellbeing of the threatened area.

Under growing risk are buildings and infrastructure, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations says.

China’s biggest shipping company this year increases its engagement along the Russian Arctic shipping passage.

Our collaboration with publisher Alice Rogoff and the Arctic Now gives us a much broader circumpolar audience, says Director Atle Staalesen.

«With staunch and devoted labour you created this steadfast Arctic outpost», President Putin says to the people of Murmansk as the city celebrates its 100-years anniversary.

The nuclear power company builds a conventional icebreaker, to serve the oil and gas companies operating in Yamal.

«Today, we celebrate twenty years of Arctic cooperation and look forward to a long term future of peace and stability in the region», six foreign ministers write in a joint statement.

Sea ice on the top of the world melts to second lowest on record.

The USA have more than 10,000 fuel barrels left rusting at its abandoned Ikateq airfield in Greenland.

The two countries’s northern regions were high on on the agenda as the Norwegian royal couple this week visited Finland.

We will be able to sail on battery power and cut climate gas emissions, the cruise shipping company says about its new vessels.

Negotiations must start immediately, Minister Sergey Donskoy tells President Putin.