Canada to spend nearly $22 million for research in the Beaufort Sea.

(Reuters) - Russia's summer heat wave has dimmed prospects that northern countries will "win" from climate change thanks to factors such as longer crop-growing seasons or fewer deaths from winter cold, experts say.

A European court suspended the European Union’s proposed seal product ban August 19, just one day before the measure was to take effect.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon launched a new Arctic foreign policy for Canada Aug. 20 in Ottawa, but offered no new promises of money for the Arctic Council, said nothing about the re-appointment of an Arctic ambassador position or an increased role for Inuit in international negotiations.

The second development phase in the Lomonosov diamond mining project in Arkhangelsk will start in 2014, leader of the Severalmaz company confirms.

The mineral deposits discovered in Kvalsund, Northern Norway are two-three times as big as first estimated and are worth approximately 2,5 billion EUR.

A European Union seal ban has been suspended until further notice after Inuit leaders questioned the legality of the ban.

There is no reason to ban drilling in Canadian waters despite the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a Senate committee looking into the possibility of a similar disaster here reported from Ottawa Wednesday.

The 100,000-tonne tanker Baltica left Murmansk Aug. 1 bound for China.

According to bloomberg.com, a chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan broke away from Greenland and may drift toward shipping lanes in the North Atlantic and off the Canadian coast, researchers said.