Every year, millions of seabirds nest on the rocky coasts of Chukotka (like here on Kolyuchin Island). Guillemots and puffins, gulls and numerous other species have found rich feeding and undisturbed breeding grounds in the region. But the idyll is deceptive: the...
Last Thursday, the Akademik Tryoshnikov set sail from Murmansk with 59 scientists on board and is currently on its way northeast through the Barents Sea. In the study area in the Russian Arctic, the researchers will collect terrestrial, marine, glaciological and...
Satellite image of Severnaya Zemlya. The archipelago is located in the Russian High Arctic at about 80 degrees north latitude and covers about 37,000 square kilometers. Photo: Landsat 8, NASA The news about massive ice losses in the Arctic does not stop. After...