Governor of the far northern Nenets Autonomous Okrug says he carefully follows the developments in the Gulf of Mexico.

Researchers at Laval University in Quebec will receive $33 million over seven years to study how ecosystems react to climate change in the Canadian Arctic.

Millions of litres of harmful contaminants – including sewage and jet fuel – have been spilled across great swaths of Canada’s Arctic, figures show.

A new plan to help the Bathurst caribou herd in the Northwest Territories proposes lifting an existing hunting ban for aboriginal hunters.

A new study shows that emission from forest, straw and stubble fires on the northern hemisphere causes very high concentrations of toxic PCB over Svalbard. PCB and other harmful pollution coming to the Arctic are jeopardizing the survival of Polar bears.

Russia has the world’s strictest regulations on offshore oil production, but lags seriously behind with regard to emergency preparedness, a leading official in the country's main environmental watchdog says.

Russian scientists are discussing to re-open the Kolskaya Sverkhglubokaya ("Kola Super-deep") drilling project in the Kola Peninsula. The deepest drilling hole in the world was closed for further work after the collapse of the Soviet Union.