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A team of Russian and Norwegian scientists stumbled upon the fastest-warming hotspot known on earth. “The Barents region towards Russia, the Russian part of the Arctic, it’s really one of the hotspots that should be looked into more. Collaborating with Russian colleagues who provided research from the eastern, Russian part of the Barents, Isaksen’s team spent four years analysing Braekkan’s …
BARENTSBURG, Norway — Russian food supplies bound for an Arctic coal mining settlement have resumed transiting via mainland Norway after weeks of tension, a Russian representative said Wednesday. Sergey Gushchin, the Russian consul general based in the settlement of Barentsburg, said Oslo had allowed Norwegian carriers to pick up the disputed cargo and cross the Russian-Norwegian border with it. According …