Arctic

The Utrenneye field, part of the Arctic LNG 2 project, in the Gyda Peninsula on the Kara Sea in the Arctic circle, in November 2021.Photographer: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images
World+Biz

The Indian apartment behind Russian efforts to break US gas sanctions

A network stretching from Dubai to China is involved in a multi-billion dollar effort to ship gas from Russia's Arctic LNG facility

Photo: Collected
Climate Change

Melting ice sheets pose starvation risk for polar bears

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Gazprom company is seen at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
Europe

Russia's Gazprom launches production at new Arctic gas site

FILE PHOTO: Russian servicemen guard an area at the Nagurskoye military base in Alexandra Land on the remote Arctic islands of Franz Josef Land, Russia March 29, 2017. Picture taken March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin -/File Photo
World+Biz

NATO allies wake up to Russian supremacy in the Arctic

A still image from video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be a Bastion mobile coastal defence missile system firing during the military drills Umka-2022 on the Chukchi Sea coastline, in this still image taken from handout footage released September 16, 2022. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
Europe

Russia conducts military drills in Arctic sea opposite Alaska

The temperature was "more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic", UN agency said. Photo : NDTV
World+Biz

UN validates 38C Arctic heat from 2020 as record high

Satellite imagery shows lightning strikes occuring above the Arctic regions of Alaska, United States, July 12, 2021. NOAA Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Scientists stunned by rare Arctic lightning storms north of Alaska

Cold, but not at war Photographer: Maxim Popov/AFP via Getty Images
Analysis

As the Arctic heats up, how to keep the peace

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Russia's miner Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) is seen on a board at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2017 (SPIEF 2017) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
World+Biz

Nornickel pays Russia $2 billion over Arctic fuel leak

Aerial view of the town of Narsaq in southern Greenland, located 5 km (3.106 miles) from the site of a rare earths mine planned by Australian-listed company Greenland Minerals, which some residents have opposed over environmental concerns, in this undated September 2020 handout photo. Greenland Minerals Ltd/Handout via REUTERS
Analysis

Mining magnets: Arctic island finds green power can be a curse

US President Donald Trump participates in a phone call with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley October 4, 2020, in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Not shown in the photo also in the room on the call is Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Trump administration issues last-minute Arctic refuge drilling leases

Sea ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in July 2017. Seawater samples were taken from 71 locations across a vast swathe of the Arctic region. Photo: David Goldman/AP via CNN
Environment

Synthetic microfibres making their way from our clothes to our bellies

A view of the Esmarkbreen glacier on Spitsbergen island, part of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway, September 24, 2020. Picture taken with a drone on September 24, 2020. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas/File Photo
Climate Change

Warming Arctic at the frontier of climate insight and risk, experts say