The summit of Mont Ross, a French glacier in the southern hemisphere, on the Kerguelen archipelago. Image: JF Cousin / Wikimedia Commons Next week in Paris, a coalition of countries will meet to discuss the disappearance of the cryosphere and its consequences for...
The Northern Sea Route already sees an increase in ship traffic. LNG-tankers, capable of breaking ice, are one of the new developments. But Russia plans to increase its icebreaker fleet to ensure more safety along the waterway and simultaneously pushes the region for...
The largest U.S. wildlife refuge in the Arctic, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been the site of a back-and-forth over oil exploration for decades. Now the U.S. government has put the extraction rights sold by the Trump administration on hold because of legal...
The ministers of the Arctic Council countries will meet in the world-famous HARPA building at Reykjavik harbour to discuss and, if necessary, decide on the recommendations drawn up in advance by the working groups. Image: Icelandic Ministry for Foreign...
The development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic has, above all, an economic background. This is because there are numerous mineral resources in the scarcely developed regions that Russia wants to develop for itself and for the global raw materials market....