Today, effective navigation in the Arctic waters of the NSR is unimaginable without icebreaker assistance. In the 20th ...

TASS/. The United States by expanding its continental shelf in the Arctic without formal evidences and geological surveys, is acting adventurously. Actions in the Arctic latitudes require uniform ...

Why does he need Greenland? Because the Arctic has some of the biggest reserves of raw materials in the world. They want to ...

A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said on Monday. The 113 sq km ...

Russia's claim to the Arctic seabed has evolved and enlarged over the years since its first submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in 2001. Following its latest ...

Escalating tensions in the Arctic over untapped resources and territorial claims raise concerns of potential conflict.

At the same time, 84% of the resources are located on the shelf of the Arctic Ocean and only 16% are on the land part of the Arctic states within the Arctic Circle. The largest reserves of natural ...

It lies entirely within the Arctic Circle, contains deep (~ 4500m) basins, the slowest spreading ridges in the world, and about 15% of the world's shelf seas (Menard and Smith 1966), with the area ...