August 2017: joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring mission 2017 Report of the World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring mission to the “Natural System of Wrangel Island ... On 23 ...

A landslide struck Wrangell Island last November in southeast Alaska, killing six people, including a family of five. Wrangell's community is slowly returning to normalcy with the upcoming tourism and ...

The strongly built man, with a neatly trimmed beard, introduces himself simply as “Nikita Ovsyanikov, polar bear biologist”. We meet on the Spirit of Enderby, where Nikita, who is one of the world’s ...

Over time, I’ve tried to visit as many of Alaska’s small cities and villages as possible in short bursts of three-day stays. In that easier-on-the-wallet fashion, I’ve easily seen 60 Alaska locales ...

How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...

On September 3, the vessel left Arkhangelsk on an expedition along the Northern Sea Route to Chukotka ARKHANGELSK, October 28. /TASS/. The Mikhail Somov scientific expedition vessel reached the voyage ...

The species survived on an island north of Siberia for thousands of years, scientists reported, but were most likely plagued by genetic abnormalities. By Carl Zimmer For millions of years, mammoths ...