There is still enough food for polar bears. Polar bears tear apart a beached whale on the coast of Wrangel Island. At that time, about 140 bears were counted in the vicinity of the whale carcass. (Photo: Chris Collins, Heritage Expeditions) Although virtually no...
During a trip to Wrangel Island, photographer Dmitry Kokh discovered polar bears living in an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin Island, in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. Expedition report by Dmitry Kokh I had dreamed of photographing...
When a bumblebee was found in 1902 on Novaya Zemlya in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, entomologists were surprised. It wasn’t a sensation, though. The insect could have been brought to the islands by the wind from the mainland. At that time, there was no...
The image shows a reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on new genetic findings. (Beth Zaiken / Center for Paleogenetics) Scientists sequenced DNA from the teeth of mammoths discovered in the 1970s in the East Siberian...
Nagurskaya is the northernmost military base in Russia. It is located in the north of the island of Alexandra Land, the westernmost island of Franz Josef Land. Nagurskaya is the only inhabited place on the island. (Photo: Vadim Savitsky) Suspicion of fraudulent...