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The Arktika has for the first time escorted a ship to the LNG terminal in Sabetta.
November 25, 2020
The powerful "Arktika" set off from Murmansk on Saturday for a three-week assignment to the Northern Sea Route. Mid-Barents Sea, though, the icebreaker turned around and sailed back to port.
November 17, 2020
The unprecedented low levels of Arctic sea-ice this summer enabled survey ship Professor Logachev to smoothly study vast areas of seabed as part of the Arctic Connect project.
November 11, 2020
Arctic challenges are likely not on the minds of beachgoers on the southern shores of Estonia, but the country brings a long list of arguments for why it should be granted observer status to the Arctic Council.
November 10, 2020
Increased shipping in the Arctic leads to bigger risk of pollution unless the International Maritime Organization (IMO) takes action and ends the use of dirty shipping fuel.
November 09, 2020
The Russian Minister of Natural Resources is fired and replaced by the Minister of the Far East and Arctic.
November 09, 2020
Lifting the instruments out of the ice-covered waters was a demanding job, but the scientists now have a year of collected data important for understanding the Arctic Ocean climate changes.
November 09, 2020
Heavy fuel oil poses a severe risk to Arctic environment and a ban in all waters around Svalbard is the logic way to eliminate the risk, the Norwegian Government says.
November 06, 2020
The diesel-engined Viktor Chernomyrdin has officially entered service in the Baltic Sea. It might never be seen in Arctic waters.
November 04, 2020
Prime Minister Mishustin wants to tap into vast oil and gas resources on the Arctic shelf and commissions his cabinet ministers to make a plan for big drilling.
November 03, 2020
KV Svalbard is called in to recover three moored instruments vital for measuring temperatures throughout the Arctic Ocean. The job was supposed to be done by the the United States' Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Healy, now at repair after suffering a fire and propulsion failure in August.
October 27, 2020
Several islands and capes recently discovered in the northern Barents Sea get names of Soviet military explorers.
October 22, 2020
Minister of the Far East and Arctic Aleksandr Kozlov leaves no doubt that shipments on the Northern Sea Route will reach 80 million tons in 2024. Far from all government colleagues agree.
October 22, 2020
The Arktika icebreaker will have to undergo a second test-voyage to prove its capabilities to crush thick and hard sea-ice.
October 21, 2020
Strong voices argue that the Severnaya Zemlya should be named after the last ruler of the Russian Empire.
October 20, 2020
A year-long international Arctic science expedition came to an end on Monday as the German research icebreaker Polarstern returned to its homeport in Bremerhaven.
October 13, 2020
With ice edge at record north this autumn, the distance to the top of the world wasn’t too difficult for nuclear-powered Arktika on her maiden voyage.
October 05, 2020
A major number of sediment samples have been collected from the Arctic seabed in the course of the maiden voyage of the Xue Long 2.
September 29, 2020
With a data rate of at least 66 terabytes per second, the 10,600 km link is expected to be on of the fastest in the world.
September 29, 2020
The nuclear-powered container ship is now en route from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka to St. Petersburg with fish, after president Putin earlier this year instructed the voyage to be carried out.
September 10, 2020
Norway's high-profile conference on Arctic issues for 2021 moves from the venue in Tromsø to a digital platform.
September 07, 2020
The polar bear attacked the man at the campsite just next to the airport in Longyearbyen.
August 28, 2020
While low-laying islands in the Pacific Ocean disappear under rising seas, geographers have to redraw Arctic maps as land previously hidden underneath ice-covered waters pops up.
August 21, 2020
Loose and weak ice with lots of melt ponds, partly open water, and no signs of multiyear ice. The powerful photos from the MOSAiC expedition reaching the North Pole on August 19 show the dramatic impact of climate changes.
August 20, 2020
Three lawsuits with total claims of close to one billion ruble (€11,5 million) are in pipe as two state owned structures battle over Russia's new fleet of troubled nuclear-powered icebreakers.
August 18, 2020

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