Tag: Arctic
The permafrost is thawing – now the amount of mercury in the Arctic is increasing
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari and Crown Princess Victoria during a visit to Svalbard in June 2023. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT / TT News Agency The environmental…
Photographer amazed by local support for Arctic expedition
A Corunna-based photographer planning to capture images in the Canadian Arctic says he’s been blown away by the local support he’s received to make that trip. Article content “I can’t…
in the Arctic, Sweden participates in its first NATO exercise
Since January, a series of NATO military exercises have been underway in Europe, constituting the largest joint training and defense operation between allies since the end of the Cold War,…
The sea eagle helped the arctic fox to escape
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen The one-year-old mountain fox Mei has mysteriously disappeared from Skåne’s zoo in Höör. Stock image of another arctic fox. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT The snow-white mountain…
The ice sheet descends on the Northeast Passage: See what Russia is building in the Arctic region from satellite images | Foreign countries
A convoy of four ships is heading towards Murmansk in the ice in the Kara Sea on the northern coast of Siberia. The Russian nuclear icebreakers Arktika and 50 Let…
“Leningrad”, Putin’s new nuclear icebreaker to conquer the Arctic – L’Express
It was named “Leningrad” by Vladimir Putin, the Soviet name for Saint Petersburg, “a new tribute” to the “courage” of the inhabitants of the former imperial capital in the face…
Canada handed over control of the resource-rich arctic land to the Inuit-majority territory | Foreign countries
According to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the handover marks the beginning of a new, upheaval chapter in Nunavut’s history. Canada has handed over control of the resource-rich arctic land…
Now electricity is becoming more expensive – incoming arctic cold is pushing prices up
Facts: Factors that set the electricity price In addition to cold and weak winds, electricity prices are affected by disturbances in the system. It can be about stoppages in nuclear…
World Cup hero Gordon Herbert prepared for the Sports Gala in the arctic conditions of the Red Sea – “My star player would turn away from the door” | Sport
“The World Championship was just the icing on the cake for me. Baking the cake together was the main thing. In that, everyone helped and supported each other. We were…
Message from Navalny: Isolation in the Arctic
unsaveSave share-arrowShare expand-left full screen Supporters of Alexei Navalny demand his release, here at a demonstration in Berlin. Archive image. Photo: Paul Zinken/AP/TT The circumstances surrounding the imprisonment of the…