Update: Rescue of beluga whales halted, but some may have already escaped
I received a large reader response to my post about the trapped Beluga whales on December 15. Russia’s Ministry of…
100 beluga whales trapped off Chukotka
Off the east coast of Chukotka’s peninsula, winter has come hard and fast, freezing parts of the Bering Strait. Fifteen…
An Arctic gold rush in Russia
Russian mines that haven’t been in operation since the days of the Soviet gulags are being reopened in an effort…