Following a formidable 106-day trek across the Arctic, which ended with the two Arctic Arc expedition members relying on Envisat images to guide them safely through disintegrating sea-ice, intrepid ...

Melting ice in the Arctic Ocean could yield new trade routes in international waters, reducing the shipping industry’s carbon footprint and weakening Russia’s control over trade routes through the ...

As climate change pushes the ice a little farther north each year, it is spurring talk of a gold rush in the remote Arctic for abundant natural resources, prized shipping routes and business ...

A trio are attempting to cross the High Arctic on a never-done-before route across Svalbard. James McCorkindale, Lee Graham and Arctic expedition leader Kasper Jæger are facing -40C temperatures, 186 ...

According to explorer Andrey Igolkin, the preliminary goal is to conduct surveys by ecologists, culture experts, linguists, demographers, specialists in logistics to outline new transport routes, ...

As part of the expedition, the participants will sample water, snow and lichens along the Northern Sea Route for scientific purposes MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. A new historical project - Russian Arctic ...