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Scientists on the research vessel Akademik Fedorov spent a week or so setting up a network of scientific monitoring equipment up to about 25 miles from the MOSAiC ship.

Environment

Studying The Ripple Effects Of Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice

9:25am November 10, 2019

by Ravenna Koenig

Scientists have frozen their ship to an ice floe to study the causes and consequences of diminishing Arctic ice, in the hopes of improving how the Arctic is represented in climate models.

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Russian research vessel Akademik Fedorov helped search for the MOSAiC ice floe. It made its way through the ice of the central Arctic Ocean.

Searching For Solid Ice As Scientists 'Freeze In' To Study A Warming Arctic

12:44pm November 05, 2019

by Ravenna Koenig

A ship of researchers is crossing the Arctic for a year attached to an ice floe. But finding the right chunk of sea ice was a challenge, in part because warmer temperatures are making it thinner.

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The German icebreaker Polarstern sits in Breivika harbor in Tromso, Norway, on Tuesday. If all goes according to plan, it will spend the next year frozen into the Arctic sea ice.

To Better Understand The Arctic, This Ship Will Spend A Year Frozen Into The Ice

12:33am September 20, 2019

by Ravenna Koenig

A group of scientists is embarking on a bold plan to better understand an extremely understudied part of the rapidly warming Arctic — the central Arctic Ocean.

Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu delivers a speech in Moscow last month. Shoigu is leading an investigation into an explosion on board a Russian navy research vessel.

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A Fire Kills 14 Crew Members Onboard Russian Navy Sub

4:21pm July 02, 2019

by Shannon Van Sant

Russia's Defense Ministry said the submariners were poisoned by fumes from the fire, which broke out on a navy deep water research vessel.

A Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling rig is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay, Seattle, in May. Three weeks after Royal Dutch Shell announced it was walking away from exploratory drilling in U.S. Arctic waters, the Obama administration has taken steps to kee

U.S. Backs Away From Offshore Arctic Drilling

8:09pm October 16, 2015

by Laura Wagner

The Department of the Interior announced that it is canceling scheduled lease sales of land in the Arctic Ocean. It also won't extend existing leases held by Shell and Statoil.