Musk oxen prefer low precipitation tundra as their habitat. They are mainly found in lower-lying plains and river valleys. If they fail to build up a sufficient fat reserve for the winter due to poor grazing and weather conditions, they are threatened with starvation,...
Walruses are dependent on sea ice for food. They use it as a platform to reach their feeding grounds. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) The rapidly melting sea ice in the Arctic is exceeding the worst predictions for the future. A new and improved model based on the last warm...
During the night of August 29-30, 2003, the submarine K-159 of the North Fleet sank to a depth of 238 meters while being towed for disposal northwest of the island of Kildin shortly before reaching its destination. (Image: Bellona) Over the next eight years, ROSATOM...
The American base “Camp Century” consisted of 21 tunnels dug into the ice. The installation had a total length of 3000 m. In addition, thousands of kilometres of rails for nuclear missiles and a few hundred launch pads for 600 rockets with nuclear warheads...
The crater appeared in the 1960s after the forest was cleared in the area for road construction. (Photo: s-vfu.ru) Known to the locals as the “gateway to the underworld”, “Batagaika” is the biggest result of permafrost thawing on the planet....
