Today about 13.00 a polar bear came to the Embassy of Norway in Moscow to call on Norway to stop Statoil's planned oil drilling activities in ice-covered Arctic, and in particular cancel it's dangerous cooperation with Rosneft.

The Arctic Council is meeting in Stockholm today, and government representatives will discuss the sustainability — or not — of Arctic oil.

Just a couple weeks ago the Russian company “Gazprom” was proving to everybody, and itself, too, it seems, that pumping oil at its “Prirazlomnaya” oil rig in the Pechora Sea was safe. Now, however, the oil and gas giant has to admit the rig's...

The harsh conditions of the Pechora Sea coupled with an inadequate— and expired— oil spill response plan mean that Gazprom, the Russian energy giant and operator of the huge Arctic oil platform Prirazlomnaya would not be able to properly respond...

This morning at 10 a.m. Moscowites had a chance to see quite an unusual picture. A lonely polar bear was drifting along the Moskva river on an ice floe. With his four paws and one paddle he managed to get from the Arctic to the Kremlin Wall.

Early this morning two Greenpeace activists dressed as polar bears climbed the oil drilling rig West Hercules at an upgrading facility in Ølen, Rogaland in Western Norway. The curious polar bears began inspecting the rig which is due to leave...

The famous Polar Bear who reached the Kremlin on an ice floe on 1 April has now arrived to Saint Petersburg to address the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg with a plea for help.

Gazprom neft is preparing to launch exploratory drilling at its second oil field on the Arctic shelf – Dolginsky, while the problems of Prirazlomnoye field remain unsolved. WWF and Greenpeace have published a research on the risks of oil...