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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.