Russian scientists plan a sledge-tractor expedition to the Laptev Sea for 2023. They want to study processes on the shelf and to make a 3D map of the submarine permafrost, the Tomsk State ...

THE LAPTEV SEA, nestled between the north coast of Siberia and Russia’s New Siberian Islands, is known as the birthplace of ice. Every year, ice forms along its coasts in the autumn before being ...

Russia's Laptev Sea Should Have Started to Freeze by Now Normally, the 'birthplace of ice' freezes by late October. For the first time in recorded history, it hasn't.

To appreciate the exceptional loss of ice, take a look at the map below. The orange line shows where ice typically is on July 19. Clearly, the sea ice is vastly diminished.

ARKHANGELSK, September 2. /TASS/. Geology experts will study the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago’s islands and the Laptev Sea’s shelf during an expedition onboard the Ivan Petrov research/survey ...

1. Which mountains extend across more degrees of latitude — the Andes or the Pyrenees? 2. Oman borders which sea — the Sea of Okhotsk or the Arabian Sea? 3. Which country has a lower average ...

A Laptev walrus on the Taimyr Peninsula, in Russia's far north On an expedition to the far north of Russia to conduct an ecological survey, the BBC's Daniel Sandford reports on how scientists fear ...

Large quantities of methane lie trapped beneath the floor of the Arctic Ocean. Measurements in the southern Laptev Sea around the Lena River delta suggest that bubbles and storms facilitate the ...

A Laptev walrus on the Taimyr Peninsula, in Russia's far north On an expedition to the far north of Russia to conduct an ecological survey, the BBC's Daniel Sandford reports on how scientists fear ...