Wildlife & nature

Russia and China have carved out a deal to protect their strategic interests in the Arctic as the two countries challenge Nato in the region. The agreement on “maritime law enforcement” followed a

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As they set the world record for the first all-women team to reach the North Pole on skis, it seemed that they had made a bond for life. Emma Golden, 47, Karen Bradburn, 63, and Rose Agnew, 76, had

travel

Driving an electric vehicle from Scotland to London would be daunting for most people, but Chris and Julie Ramsey are to set out on a ten-month journey from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole

He has battled pandemics, nuclear wars and bioweapon disasters. Now Tom Cruise faces a truly impossible mission: persuading authorities on an Arctic archipelago that he won’t disturb their polar bears

The starting gun has been fired on the world’s most famous dog sled race, with 33 mushers competing to conquer the Alaskan wilderness. The Iditarod began at the weekend in Willow, about 70 miles north

A walrus has been spotted in the Hebrides for the first time in at least 25 years. Lorn MacRae, a creel fisherman, spotted the walrus on Monday on rocks in the Treshnish Isles, near the Isle of Mull.

Weather Eye

Last year researchers listened in to the sounds of blue and fin whales off the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, using fibre-optic cables lying on the seabed linked to new technology, and Norwegian

NATURE

If counting sheep to fall asleep doesn’t work, you could try walruses. Scientists are inviting people to look through satellite images and count the number of blubbery animals to estimate their Arctic

THE ARCTIC

People say they travel to the Arctic primarily for scenery or wildlife. They don’t really. Dorset has plenty of both and you don’t hear similar eulogies to that. No, polar bears aside, the real reason

Scotland’s first heavy snows of the winter caused travel disruption and school closures across the northeast yesterday (Lara Wildenberg writes). Police urged motorists to take care following reports of