A Copenhagen scientific expedition is on its way to prepare a claim that vast energy wealth under the Arctic belongs to the Danish Crown.
Scientist thought he had stumbled upon an unusual stone, only for tests to show he had unearthed major dinosaur find.
Challenge to polar doom warning from respected international expert Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University.
The navigator, who served in the Navy of Peter the Great, gave his name to the Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and Bering Bridge.
A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.
For hundreds of years visitors to this Arctic outpost have been frightened by terrifying totems and human sacrifices.
Remains from the Zhokhov island in the East Siberian Arctic show trained sled dogs existed almost 10,000 years ago.
Subsea permafrost thaws faster than previously thought, Russian scientists say.