Since 2020, Arktika has been escorting LNG carriers from Siberian petrochemical complexes between Murmansk and the Bering Strait. Image: Rosatom The conflict in Ukraine is straining the political and economic situation in the Russian Arctic, and the dream of free...
The retreating sea ice in the summer in the southern Arctic reveals new territories for some fish from the south. Image: Andreas Rogge The international waters of the Arctic are now protected from fishing thanks to the agreement of its 5 border states. The latter have...
Microplastics in the ocean are practically invisible. While many studies have been conducted on the Atlantic side of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi Sea has hardly been studied for microplastics. Photo: Julia Hager In the northern hemisphere, the Arctic Ocean virtually...
Garbage collected on the beaches of the Bering Sea in Alaska. (Austin Ahmasuk) Garbage drifting from Asia to Alaska’s beaches is nothing new. But this year, there is a mysterious and disturbing tide that is piling up along the coasts of the Bering Strait...
Earlier than in the past years the walruses come to the beach of Point Lay due to the lack of sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Pacific walruses started to gather earlier than usual on land, on a beach at the Chukchi Sea. The...