Nowhere on earth is global warming proceeding more rapidly than inside the Arctic Circle. Over the past two decades, the ...

Over 150 years ago, in 1867, the United States acquired Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Since then, it has not expanded ...

Greenland lies across the most direct routes from Russia to the populous east coast of the US, and is the closest territory ...

With Novatek’s $27 billion Yamal LNG project now in commercial ... vessel to travel the full length of the NSR without any icebreaker escort. The first Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker “Christophe ...

The owners of the LNG tankers that have lied idle in the Russian part of the Barents Sea for almost five months suddenly ...

and Russia aims to capitalize on this with its unrivaled icebreaker fleet. These Arctic regions are rich in massive deposits of natural gas, with the Bovanenkovo field on the Yamal Peninsula alone ...

Aker Arctic said the design for this 12-MW icebreaker was “optimised for ice breaking within the harbour basin in very thick consolidated and refrozen brash ice”. These are the conditions it will ...