Arctic Sea ice is shrinking so rapidly that by the summer in as little as four years’ time it could vanish altogether at the top of the globe. The International Energy Agency warns that climate change is irreversible by 2017.
In 1915 Norwegian researchers from the University of Oslo bought 94 buried Skolt Sami skeletons for less than one Euro per person. The skeletons were brought to the laboratory with the aim to study race and migration. On Sunday the skeletons were finally put to rest in their original grave on the river banks of the Neiden river. After 96 years in laboratory storage.
Gazprom is ready to start tugging its “Prirazlomnaya” platform from Murmansk to the Pechora Sea. Drilling at Russia’s first Arctic offshore oil field might start already in September.
