Average temperatures in the north of the Kara and Barents seas were 4C to 5C higher than previous years.
Modern-day zeppelins costing $30 million each would revolutionise transport links and economic exploitation of Siberia in $240 billion plan.
Homage to the remarkable bravery of sailors and troops who repelled the Germans in the only World War Two combat action in Siberia.
Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.
Remains from the Zhokhov island in the East Siberian Arctic show trained sled dogs existed almost 10,000 years ago.
The animal got into a habit of visiting rubbish dumps on remote Novaya Zemlya, say researchers.
And take part in scientific experiment to PROVE that the leaking of harmful greenhouse gases in the Arctic can be slowed.
An accident involved 17 miners some 365 metres beneath the surface at Alrosa's Udachninskiy ore-dressing plant 14 km south of the Arctic Circle.