“He pay us a visit last night.” Wrangel Island was declared a zapovednik—a federally managed nature sanctuary—in 1976, and it remains one of Russia’s coldest, remotest pieces of ...

10,000 years ago, on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, a unique population of mammoths began to emerge. Scientists published their findings in the journal "Cell," speculating how these ...

isolated islands nestled between Russia and Alaska that were cut-off from the mainland by rising seas. Researchers think one of these refuges, name Wrangel Island, became the last mammoth hold-out ...

Russia has 32 "continuously attended military sites" in the Arctic region as of 2024. Per the report, three sites of the sites, those situated in Franz Josef Land, Kotelny Island, and Wrangel ...

TASS, May 15. Russian scientists will use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to watch polar bears on the Wrangel Island. UAVs will be bought during the current year, and scientists will begin using ...

A military ecology unit of the north-eastern forces began cleaning the Wrangel Island, the Pacific Fleet’s press service reported on Monday. "An ecology unit of the forces in Russia’s north ...

In late August 2019 we set off for the remote island of Wrangel in Russia’s north-eastern Arctic. The size of Crete, Wrangel is so cut off that the very last population of woolly mammoth ...

Enchanted by its rugged beauty, Sergey finds any excuse to return to Wrangel Island. With no supplies available ... determined to record the richness of Russia's wilderness. He is widely published, ...

isolated islands nestled between Russia and Alaska that were cut-off from the mainland by rising seas. Researchers think one of these refuges, name Wrangel Island, became the last mammoth hold-out ...