Severnaya Zemlya

Eye-catching numbers have emerged on the expected trade boom from the Arctic route to Europe for Chinese business. 

Move boosts armed forces capability in polar waters. 

Mi-8 delivered Hannah McKeand and Canadian companion to remote island weather station but crashed soon after, as pair abandon North Pole attempt.

Shoreline on remote island retreats by 74 metres in seven years due to increased wave power of unfrozen sea, and thawing permafrost.

Poaching, climate change and excessive hunting caused colossal population drop.

Sergey Golubev from Krasnoyarsk left on a 7,120 km round trip by dinghy in July, aiming to return in September.

Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.

The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.

Remnants of this land mass still exist in Russia, the US, Canada and Greenland, says groundbreaking new research.

The Russian government has ordered the evacuation of North Pole-40 Arctic Station.