While the French and Chinese are investing in the extraction of Arctic gas, and the Australians in the development of polar coal, the Italians decided to invest in wind energy.

Aleksey Sitnikov, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District Deputy Governor, participated in the Meeting on Condition Ob-Irtish Basin Aquatic Biological Resources in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District.

President Obama’s Interior Department announced that no offshore leases for oil and gas development in Arctic will be granted for a five-year period.

The issue of the Global Warming and its effect on ecosystems troubles more and more scientists as time goes on.

2 public contracts for forest land evaluation in the Yamal forestry, Priuralsky District with the total area of 987 817 hectares were sealed in 2016, according to the District Department for Natural Resources Management, Forestry Affairs, and Oil-and-Gas Industry Development.

Yamali specialists suggested creating new air monitoring facilities in the District.

The Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District will inspect all the extension wells.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a draft decree according to which the Russian Arctic National Park’s territory will be expanded by 7.4 mln hectares.

About 1.500.000 muksuns were released in the Ob River in the Yamal-Nenets-Autonomous District in order to recruit the species.

The Russian fishing vessel M-0239 Melkart detained by Norwegian authorities for fish discards in the so-called fish protected area near the Arctic archipelago Svalbard has been fined 230,000 Norwegian krone (about $28,000).

Volunteers carry on cleaning the Beliy Island from industrial waste.

500 tons of scrap iron are to be disposed from the Beliy Island during the Russian summer field work season in the framework of the initiative for industrial waste clean-up.

The “Arctic marathon” project has been initiated in the City of Nefteyugansk, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. It is now recruiting people for an environmental expedition to the Beliy Island.

The first planned summer expedition to the Beliy Island (the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District) set off today, on July 4.

The ecological unit of the Eastern Military District will continue environmental rehabilitation of the Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean this year on the territory of around 10 hectares. It is planned to collect over 1,000 tons of garbage.