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It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...
Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...
A multidisciplinary survey was carried out in the Pacific Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the North Pacific Ocean on the Korean icebreaking research vessel Araon. During this survey, ichthyoplankton ...
We knew the Bering Sea could turn savage, and it did. Blasted by gale-force winds and surrounded by heaving seas, we pushed through a passage that tested our limits and our vessel’s strength.
As melting sea ice reveals new trade routes, resources and battlegrounds, the Kola Bay is emerging as one of Russia’s most ...
The seven other Arctic states have turned their backs on the region’s governing Arctic Council, which is currently chaired by Russia, and many critical climate-science projects are in limbo.
Learn more with Symmetry ’s updated interactive map. Since the map’s first release in 2013, national labs have closed some of their facilities and opened others. They have undergone name changes and ...
Arctic amplification is the intense warming in the Arctic. Greenhouse gases raise air temperatures, melting sea ice and thawing permafrost and initiating a feedback loop accelerating climate change.
Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...
YAKUTSK, July 8. /TASS/. The Russian Geographical Society's branch in Yakutia will start in late July a sailing expedition from Yakutsk to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to cover more than 7,000 km, the ...
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