Russia steps up military posturing in the Arctic ahead of NATO’s nuclear drill

The week ahead will not be an easy sleep for security observers. Numerous military watchouts in Russia's northwestern regions. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 1 year ago

Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin

International hacktivist group declares cyber attacks against Putin after the Russian President launched war on Ukraine. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 2 years ago

'Human activity' behind Svalbard cable disruption

There were no natural phenomena that led to the break of the fiberoptic cable between the Arctic archipelago and the Norwegian mainland, preliminary police investigations conclude. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 2 years ago

The Looming Arctic Collapse

Previously solid ground is quickly degrading. The melting of the permafrost is about to cause huge damage to buildings and infrastructure across the country, Russia's natural resource minister warns. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 2 years ago

Ice-free Arctic summers likely by 2050, even with climate action

Much of the Arctic Ocean will become ice-free during summers by 2050 even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced sharply, according to a new study. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Christmas tree lit with first electricity, Arctic floating nuclear-power plant

At 11 am Moscow Times on December 19th, the “Akademik Lomonosov” delivered its first electricity to the grid in Pevek, Arctic Russia. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Soviet mini-submarine discovered in Jarfjord by Norwegian special forces in 1990

A former officer from the Headquarters of the Armed Forces in Northern Norway told about the surfacing submarine in a TV documentary by NRK about the Cold War. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Arctic islands 8 degrees warmer than normal

After the hottest Arctic summer on record follows the warmest ever fall. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Luxury Ship Enters Bering Strait, Starts Cruise on Russia’s Northern Sea Route

The «Silver Explorer» gets escort by a Russian icebreaker as it launches its ice edge cruising through Russian Arctic waters. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Radioactive Cobalt-60 measured along Norway's border to Russia

«The levels measured are very, very low and we don’t know its origin,» says Bredo Møller with Norway’s radiation agency’s emergency preparedness unit at Svanhovd in the Pasvik valley. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Major step towards a Europe-Asia Arctic cable link

Japanese and Nordic partners team up with Russia’s telecom giant MegaFon, sign MoU to set up trans-Arctic telecom company. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Melting glaciers at Novaya Zemlya contain radiation from nuclear bomb tests

A science expedition to the area has discovered “big concentrations of radioactivity” in the ice – and concludes that the glaciers are melting into the sea at record speed. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 5 years ago

Last three reactor compartments soon off the water in Northern Russia

25-years with safe decommissioning of Cold War submarines in the Russian north will come to an end next year. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 5 years ago

To the memory of the submarine commanders who fired nuclear torpedoes at Zemlya

It was early morning 10th October 1957 when Captain Georgy Lazarev slowly sailed his «S-144» submarine into the quiet waters of the Chernaya Guba to conduct the first ever launch of a nuclear torpedo. More than 60 years later, his devastating blast is honoured with a monument on … | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 5 years ago