The Consulate General in the Russian mining settlement of Barentsburg (red building in the picture at the far left) looks after the affairs of the roughly 350 inhabitants of the second largest town on Spitsbergen. Photo: Heiner Kubny Termination due to own needs: The...
It’s not the Arctic, but Brazil has been present in Antarctica for 40 years and feels that the time has come to look north. Image: Marinha do Brasil Brazil is making progress on polar issues and its deployment capability. For the first time, it has published a...
Russian coal production in Svalbard will be reduced by two-thirds to 40,000 tonnes per year by 2032 (Photo: Arktikugol) After acquiring the rights to mine coal on Spitsbergen more than a century ago, Russia says it will reduce coal production to the minimum needed to...