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 Arctic plays an important role for Russia in terms of security; we should pay more attention to the development of the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
When spring 2015 approaches, sun spilling the landscape will find a group of scientists adrift at sea on “RV Lance” – once a top-of-the-line seal hunting boat, now turned research vessel.
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.
For the third year in a row, students from the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) in Arkhangelsk have the chance to get hands-on experience on Arctic research. The research vessel “Professor Molchanov” left Arkhangelsk on Sunday, bound for a 30 days cruise to Svalbard and the Barents Sea.
Activists from Greenpeace have climbed aboard an oil drilling rig in the Barents Sea early Tuesday morning, trying to stop Statoil from starting exploration in world’s northernmost prospect.
