Greenpeace’s vessel «Arctic Sunrise» has been released after nearly nine months of detention in Murmansk, following the organization’s demonstration against Arctic drilling in the Pechora Sea last fall.
The open letter calls on President Vladimir Putin to ensure that the piracy charges against the 28 Greenpeace activists and two freelancers are dropped.
Canada is soon expected to apply to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for exclusive rights to 1.7 million square kilometers of Arctic sea floor. Denmark and Greenland submitted their claim last week.
More than 900 reindeer die of hunger on the Russian Arctic island of Kolguyev following a critical lack of available local pasturelands. The reindeer stocks in the area are too badly managed, regional authorities admit.
Environmental activists are blocking an Arctic-bound drilling rig contracted by Gazprom Neft from leaving the Dutch port of IJmuiden. We will never stop our campaigns against drilling in the Arctic, Greenpeace says.
Norwegian research vessel ”Johan Hjort” has crisscrossed Arctic waters for more than two decades. Take a closer look at one of Norway’s key instruments for mapping of Arctic ecosystems.
A railway line from northern Finland to the Norwegian Arctic coast will open a new base for industrial development in the Nordic countries, a group of regional industrialsts says.
As local policians in the Norwegian Arctic town catfight over alternative sites for new ports and maritime infrastructure, Chinese investors confirm their interest in the area.
REYKJAVIK: The capital of Iceland stands in the Arctic limelight for the next couple of days, as people from around 50 different countries gather to discuss resources, climate change, security politics and much more at the Arctic Circle assembly.
