Guardian: Russian islands declare emergency after mass invasion of polar bears

Russian environmental authorities have deployed a team of specialists to a remote Arctic region to sedate and remove dozens of hungry polar bears that have besieged the people living there. [more…]

guardian: Slava of the Arctic: the world’s most extreme weatherman

Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in Tiksi, a tiny port in arctic Russia, but moved to Moscow to study, before becoming a photographer in New York. Life in the Big Apple couldn’t have been further from the frozen world she had left behind. But, despite all its distractions, she yearned to go back. “It was isolated,” she says of Tiksi. “But it was fun. We had to create our own little world.” [more…]

 Evgenia Arbugaeva (Photographer)