A new Arctic Council project aims to trace how plastics travel...
Iceland’s minister for the environment and natural resources, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, tossed a yellow-and-white plastic bottle from a coast guard vessel near Iceland last...
Climate Change ‘car crash’ draws in visitors in the Arctic
The spectre of climate change looms large over Audun Salte's dog farm.His 110 dogs live in the sparse outdoors of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago...
Alaska seabird die-offs, now in their fifth year, are a ‘red...
For five years in a row, masses of dead birds have been turning up on Alaska shorelines.The big die-offs involve different species in different...
A Svalbard reindeer died after getting tangled up in plastic waste
Plastic waste represents an increasing problem for reindeer on Svalbard, and one reindeer recently died after it got entangled in a big tangle of...
Russia’s first sea-borne nuclear power plant arrives at its Arctic base
MOSCOW — Russia's first-floating nuclear power plant has arrived to its permanent base near the isolated Russian town of Pevek, on the Chukchi Sea...
Climate change is poised to divide Norway’s largest Arctic island into...
Retreating glacier ice will eventually open a new strait between the Barents and Greenland Seas through the island of Spitsbergen, the largest in the Norwegian...
US regulators choose expansive plan for Arctic Refuge oil leasing, offering...
The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday officially announced its plan to offer up the entire coastal plain of of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Russian Navy commandos boarded a cargo vessel on Northern Sea Route
Russia’s Northern Fleet has stopped a ship suspected of violating sailing regulations in the remote Arctic waters of the Northern Sea Route. It is...
Ice seal die-offs in Alaska have spurred a government investigation
ANCHORAGE — U.S. government biologists are investigating the deaths of nearly 300 Arctic ice seals found on Alaska beaches since last summer, federal officials...
Russian scientists found microplastics along the entire Northern Sea Route
Russian researchers found microplastics all along the Northern Sea Route during an expedition there this summer.The Russian newspaper Izvestiya this week reports about the findings done...
