A leading environmental group is planning on suing the American federal government in order to compel them to come to a decision in regards to further protection for Arctic seals.

We are not sprinters. You should be prepared for a long run distance. The companies which win our tenders now will probably be involved in the Shtokman project for 50 or even 70 years on the further stages of its development, said the Shtokman Development CEO Yury Komarov.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit the Svalbard archipelago to study the climate changes’ influence on ice masses in Polar Areas.

Last week the Zvezdochka shipyard in Arkhangelsk Oblast put one nuclear powered submarine on the water after reparations and finished scrapping another one.

Oil companies Shell and StatoilHydro might have found one of the world’s biggest offshore gas fields off the coast of northern Norway.

Offshore gas production in the Kara Sea will start in year 2030, a representative of a Gazprom subsidiary says.

The Inuit Ataqatigiit party is now the largest in Greenland. This is an historic landslide victory for Inuit Ataqatigiit, as for the first time in the history of the Home Rule Government the Siumut party for has been pushed into the background as the second largest party in Greenland.

Over 200 delegates are talking part in the 2030 North conference in an effort to start the basic groundwork for a strategy on the north and its future. The general consensus at the conference is that those living in the Canadian Arctic must be the ones to set the tone for any discussions and decisions being made about the Arctic.

Murmanshelf, an association of oil- and gas suppliers in Murmansk Oblast and Northwest Russia, has its first foreign board member. The association now includes nearly 200 companies.