Russia is developing new major export capacities for oil, among them in the Arctic. However, political considerations will be instrumental as to how much oil will flow through respective routes, a Norwegian researcher argues.

Overfishing in the Barents Sea has been reduced with 84 percent in the period from 2005 to 2008, Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Helga Pedersen says.

The Progress Party, the second biggest political party in Norway, wants to abolish the Sami Parliament, pull Norway out of the ILO Convention 169 and reduce Sami land rights.

Head of the Russian Federation's Council for Northern Affairs and Indigenous Peoples, stated in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that ensuring indigenous peoples' legal and political situation is a priority for the Russian government.

The Barents Cooperation helps create trust and is useful for both the national and regional levels of power, Russian State Duma representative Valentina Pivnenko highlighte in this week’s Barents Parliamentary Conference.

Canada’s recent mapping flights in the Arctic have explored past the North Pole and into areas that Russia is claiming as its own, Canadian federal officials have confirmed. While Russia has made no bones about the fact that it sees the waters leading up to the North Pole as Russian territory, the Canadian mapping flights could mean that Canada plans to challenge Russia on the ownership of those waters.

After seeing a decade of stability of methane over the Arctic region, a recent increase in the concentrations of the powerful greenhouse gas has some experts worried about the immense stores of methane currently trapped in the permafrost, and what could happen if they are thawed as the ice melts.

European politicians are breathtakingly hypocritical about sealskins

European politicians are breathtakingly hypocritical about sealskins, the Economist writes in an editorial

Norwegian energy major StatoilHydro is in “intense discussions” with Gazprom over joint projects in Russia, Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reports.