Rosatom has officially been granted the right to develop, regulate and control the NSR: It’s a law - Russian Arctic shipping to be regulated by Rosatom President Putin signs the bill that makes the country’s state nuclear power company top regulator of the Northern Sea Route. …

Whilst Siberia is terrified of dreaded warmth, here’s some real terror down south. [image] Scott Base crew enduring near-record breaking Antarctica winter - 10C colder... It's all down to a polar vortex in the region.

As you like to say; that is weather and it is local. Weather changes by days, if not by hours, while climate changes by decades, if not centuries. The earth has warmed by 1.5 degr. C since the industrial revolution. (not the cultural revolution) That is unusually fast and caused by man, not only b…

Since that was aired the polar vortex has escaped and blizzards have covered the South Island. Ferry services have been suspended between the two islands with 6 to 8 metre swells forecast. Whitebait are smelt about an inch long and transparent until cooked in a fritter with just enough egg white to…

[image] Hogsnort: Unaffordable but if I won a lottery would feature for breakfast. Wow! In '84 I paid five GBP or so for a dinner-size mess of whitebait in England. I don’t remember the actual number but I wasn’t eating expensively on that trip.

Whitebait were sold by the glass when I was young. The glass was 8 fluid ounces and the average family was well able to afford them. I don’t know why it was sold by the glass but I think it was because many sellers didn’t have scales but fishmongers also used a glass.

The heat is hitting the Artic hard: [image] The looming Arctic collapse: more than 40% of north Russian buildings are... 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 …

[image] ombugge: The heat is hitting the Artic hard: Wait for winter. That’ll fix the heat problem.

I wonder what the Arctic shipping season is going to look like this year. Novatek has already sent three LNG shipments east along the Northern Sea Route and the fourth one is currently underway. A Chinese ice-strengthened general cargo ship Tian En sailing north along the Norwegian coast will proba…

HMS Protector sets record for British ships, reaching 80 degr. 41.5 min. North in the Greenland Sea. This was as an ice trial after a major refit: [image] A UK research vessel has set a new record for the Royal Navy's northernmost... A British icebreaking survey ship has sailed further n…

Things are happening fast in the Arctic: [image] A new study shows just how quickly the world's cryosphere is shrinking -... The world’s frozen areas lost an average of about 87,000 square kilometers (33,000 square miles) a year from 1979 to 2016, and the period of annual freeze has shru…

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