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Experts discuss plan to lift nuclear waste from Russian Arctic seabed

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 9, 2020 at 11:54
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Experts are discussing the framework for safe lifting of dumped reactors from four submarines and uranium fuel from one icebreaker

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Ecosystems shifting in Russia’s Arctic waters, scientists find

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 10:30
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Species that previously were non-existent in Russia’s remote and icy Arctic waters are now found in big numbers. The researchers

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Drilling rigs end activities in Russia’s Arctic waters as winter nears

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 14:42 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 09:31
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Three drilling rigs have this year spud wells in the Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob, in Arctic Russia.

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Russian Navy maps large area of Arctic seabed

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 11:25 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 11:28
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Research vessels operated by Russia’s Northern Fleet have this summer mapped several thousand square kilometers of the Arctic shelf. A

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Rosneft announces more offshore drilling in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 10:48 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 10:59
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Five years after it found one of the largest oil fields in Arctic waters, Rosneft makes clear that more drilling

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Norwegian ships accompany Chinese rig to Russian Arctic drill site

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 14:06 — Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2019 at 15:47
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A fleet of supply ships surround the Chinese rig “Nan Hai Ba Hao” as it gets ready to spud a

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Chinese drilling rig returns to Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 14:47
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It is the third year in a row that drilling rig Nan Hai 8 arrives in Murmansk to prepare for

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Chinese rig makes massive gas discovery in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 10:13 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 15:37
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The Nan Hai Ba Hao platform has found more than a trillion cubic meters of natural gas in the Kara

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Russia’s Rosneft considering pipeline to boost shipping on Northern Sea Route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 16:24
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In a sign of support for growing shipping on the Northern Sea Route, Rosneft mulls building of a 600-km-long pipeline

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Russia funds research to improve Arctic weather forecasts

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 09:58 — Last Updated: Friday, March 1, 2019 at 09:46
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The money is allocated from the government’s reserve fund and is to strengthen Arctic weather forecasting. The Russian government this

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December sea ice levels in Arctic Europe at record low

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 10, 2018 at 10:08 — Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 at 15:48
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It is December and European Arctic waters are free of ice way north of Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya. Norwegian Ice Service,

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Snow crabs invading Russia’s Arctic nuclear waste dump

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, November 26, 2018 at 10:20 — Last Updated: Friday, November 30, 2018 at 11:43
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Researchers find a huge influx of snow crabs in areas with dumped radioactive waste in the Kara Sea, in Arctic

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Russia loosens ice-class requirements for Arctic shipping

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 10:38
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With thinner Arctic ice comes softer regulations for vessels operating on the Northern Sea Route. The Russian Transport Ministry aims

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Climate change is driving micro-algae blooms into High Arctic and may affect food chains, says study

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, October 15, 2018 at 15:53 — Last Updated: Friday, October 19, 2018 at 12:36
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Micro-algae blooms at the base of marine food chains are heading north at a rate of one degree of latitude

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Arctic coastal town of Dikson is fastest-warming place in Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 10:53 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 11:02
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The town of Dikson and the surrounding Taymyr Peninsula, in Russia’s central Arctic, has the most rapid temperature increase in

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