Beyond nuclear icebreakers, Russia maintains conventional icebreakers and is constructing four non-nuclear, ice-class Project ...

It’s 1553, and Sir Hugh Willoughby is leading three ships into uncharted arctic waters to search for the Northeast Passage -- a direct route from Europe to China and India via northern Russia.

Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Vanessa Heggie and comedian Stu Goldsmith to learn all about the perilous history of Arctic exploration. From the 15th to 20th Centuries, Europeans searched for the ...

The most important thing for them to experience,” he says, “is how difficult this is.” In the depths of the cold war, US ...

MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - Two tankers hit by U.S. sanctions are due to offload Russian Arctic Oil in Syria for the first time, days after Moscow made its first known delivery of diesel there in ...

They designed skin boats and harpoons for hunting marine mammals, created arctic dress from ... did not entirely abandon exploration for its own sake. Russian Navy ships surveyed Alaska's Bering ...

China, a “near-Arctic” nation, is a bit too close for ... sector since the Americans turned out 2,710 “liberty ships” in the space of four years during the second world war.

Arctic Star Exploration Corp., a junior natural resource company, acquires, explores, and develops mineral properties in Canada and Finland. It primarily explores for diamond. The company’s ...

This week Norway awarded 53 offshore oil and gas exploration licenses to 20 companies ... plans for increased drilling in its offshore Arctic region. “If we are to uphold a stable production ...

TASS/. The Museum of Arctic and Antarctic will digitize archival materials related to the Arctic's active development since the 19th century - unique photographs, documents, diaries and many other ...