Year-round opening of the Northern Sea Route depends on icebreaker escorts. Image: Baltic Shipyard To promote the development of the Russian Arctic, national and regional authorities have invited foreign delegations from friendly countries to visit Arkhangelsk, in the...
There are 29 countries taking part in the Antarctic Treaty negotiations and 28 others that can attend. Image : Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty The meeting of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes has just finished in Argentina, ahead of the...
Balloon preparation in Esrange, Sweden, for the MAGIC mission led by Cyril Crevoisier and Caroline Bès in 2021. Image: Camille Lin An international team of physicists and balloonists flew a helium-filled aerial vessel between Sweden and Canada to study the atmosphere...
Plenary session at the opening of the Antarctic Treaty meeting on Monday May 20. Picture: Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty The 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting has come to a close in Kochi, India. Negotiations focused, among other things, on the...
Serafima Andreeva is a socio-political researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. This research organization works on environmental issues, law and resource management policy. The center is located in Lysaker, near Oslo, on the former estate of explorer Fridtjof...