Alexander Bengert, Director General of Hydrographic Enterprise, has highlighted that the main obstacle hampering the expansion of Arctic navigation is that over 2 million square kilometers of the region’s water surface and adjacent areas have not been adequately studied.
Coal production in the Spitzbergen (Svalbard) archipelago will be reduced by two thirds, down to 40,000 tons per year, until 2032.
Young scientists in the Polar region have been added to the list of participants in the "Home in the Arctic" program, a resolution to this effect was adopted by the government of the Murmansk Region.
The Canadian federal government has allocated a $91 million research grant for the Qanittaq Clean Arctic Shipping Initiative, co-developed by the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada and Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Coal production in the Spitzbergen (Svalbard) archipelago will be reduced by two thirds, down to 40,000 tons per year, until 2032.
