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Heiner Kubny
On 23 April 2026, the European Union adopted new measures against Russia as part of its 20th package of sanctions. The focus is on the northern Russian port of Murmansk.
The Arctic is gaining increasing international importance due to its vast natural resources, especially natural gas.
Russia, once a global leader in icebreaker construction, is facing a potential strategic setback.
The return of the strategic nuclear submarine “Karelia” to active service marks a new phase in the expansion of Russia’s nuclear naval forces in the Arctic.
Wildfires are increasingly sweeping across regions of the Arctic that were long considered too cold and too wet for large-scale fires.
Scientists located sunken vessels containing radioactive waste during an expedition with the research ship Akademik Ioffe in the Barents and Kara Seas.
Rosamaria Kubny
Caribou use collective experience to flexibly adapt their migrations to changing winter conditions.
In the Arctic zone of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Gazprom Neft has discovered one of the most significant oil fields of the past 30 years.
Marcel Schütz
An adult male polar bear can lose or gain up to 60 kilograms of body weight within just a few days - an amount equivalent to the body weight of an average adult human.
With the end of the last Ice Age, not only did glaciers and ice sheets melt away. One of the most impressive animal communities in Earth’s history also vanished.
