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Russia's newly adopted Marine Doctrine has a high stress on Arctic waters and the shelf north of the country's 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone.

Dilemma solved: Two containers with food supplies that were stopped on the land border to Norway are now underway towards Svalbard.

Human traces on reindeer antlers suggest that humans have been in the Arctic for over 40,000 years.

The Russian Embassy in Oslo warns of a humanitarian emergency at the country’s mining society on Svalbard this coming winter if Norway doesn’t open its land border at Storskog for two containers with seven tons of food supplies from Murmansk.

The seven western countries on the Arctic Council said Wednesday they will resume work together on some of the forum’s projects, but without Russia.

May 28 came with more heat than any day last year at the airport in Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost with scheduled public flights.

The research vessel that is designed for 2-years autonomous drifting in thick Arctic sea-ice is ready for sailing.

The world's most powerful diesel-engined icebreaker is on its maiden voyage into thick Arctic sea-ice.

Sea trials start in late May, with a plan to sail the unique vessel into the Arctic sea ice for the first time in October.

"We have all the resources and all the opportunities to quickly find alternative solutions," Putin told the participants of the meeting on the development of the Arctic zone.

As Russia continued its second day of attacks on Ukraine, the ambassadors of Sweden and Finland have pulled out of an upcoming Arctic conference in Canada where Russian officials are also scheduled to attend.

Deep within Svalbard’s permafrost, 10 gene banks from around the world are set to deposit their seeds into the Global Seed Vault on Monday, including one from the first organization that made a withdrawal from the facility.