The Heritage Adventurer has made many first voyages in her existence. Now she will connect the Arctic and Antarctic on the Pacific side and also head for the islands in between. Picture: Jason Ransom / Heritage Expeditions Since the pandemic, the expedition travel...
A 26,000-year-old mammoth skeleton found on Russia’s Kotelny Island off the coast of Yakutia provides new insights into the distribution of humans during the Paleolithic period. Image: Wikimedia Commons After the remains of a woolly mammoth were found on Kotelny...
Four rangers from the nature reserve were fortunately nearby at the time of the crash and immediately rushed to the accident site in two speedboats. Photo: Russian Emergencies Ministry via Reuters A tragic accident occurred on Kamchatka on Thursday morning local time,...
The Peschanka mining area (red) is located about 425 kilometres southwest of Pevek in the middle of Chukotka. About halfway there is the Bilibino NPP, which is still supposed to supply electricity for the construction of the mining plant. From 2027 onwards, the...
The Arctic Century Expedition is being carried out aboard the Akademik Tryoshnikov, a Russian research icebreaker. Currently, the ship is docked in Kiel, where it is being loaded for the expedition. Photo: Jan Steffen, GEOMAR In August, scientists from Switzerland,...