Arctic

Arctic

Rosneft intends to develop large oil reserves in the northern Ural region's tundra.Ruslan Shamukov / TASS

Russian oil giant announces start of vast Arctic project

Environmentalists urged the Russian government last year to stop granting licenses to exploit several Arctic deposits

Danish patrol vessel P571 Ejnar Mikkelsen is seen in Sisimiut harbor, Greenland, in 2015. Picture taken in 2015. Photo: Reuters

As the Arctic's attractions mount, Greenland is a security black hole

Several hundred scientists from 20 countries travelled in the icebreaker 'Polarstern'. Photo: BSS/AFP

Biggest North Pole mission back from ‘dying Arctic’

Polarstern ship used for Arctic expedition. Photo: BSS

Arctic odyssey ends, bringing home tales of alarming ice loss

Photo : BBC; sourced from COPERNICUS DATA/ESA/SENTINEL-2B/PromiceGL

Global warming shatters the last remaining largest glacier in Arctic 

This satellite image, captured in 2017, shows the rapid depletion of two ice caps on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. As of July 2020, both are gone. Photo: NASA via LiveScience

Two Canadian ice caps vanished from the Arctic, NASA shows

Svalbard is known for its polar bears, which a recent study predicts could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime due to the Climate change. Photo: AFP

Highest temperatures for 40 years in Norwegian Arctic archipelago

Climate change turning polar bears cannibalistic

Climate change turning polar bears cannibalistic

Permafrost, seen at the top of the cliff, melts into the Kolyma River outside Zyryanka, Russia, on July 4. Melting permafrost is altering Siberia's landscape and economy Photo: The Washington Post/ Michael Robinson Chavez

The Arctic shifts into a new climate state, emitting tons of carbon into the air