Any reference will tell you the Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar mirage — and it is. But Novaya Zemlya-like effects are not limited to the Arctic. The Novaya Zemlya effect is an atmospheric refraction ...

A Russian Arctic archipelago on Saturday declared an emergency situation over an "invasion" of dozens of aggressive polar bears that have entered homes and public buildings. Russia's northeastern ...

It's been a busy few weeks up on the windswept Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya: people, earthmoving trucks, shipping containers, temporary housing, heavy-lift aircraft, helicopters, cargo ships.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russian President Vladimir Putin's ally, said on ...

The great promise of the Age of Discovery was that the blank areas on the world's maps were full of vast, unexplored islands and continents. After this idea proved to be correct in 1492, European ...

Russia has significantly increased construction at a remote Arctic island location where Soviet nuclear tests were conducted, new satellite imagery shows, suggesting Moscow may be intending to resume ...

Novaya Zemlya [Larger image] is an Arctic archipelago off the coast of the Russian Federation. Besides several smaller isles, Novaya Zemlya consists of two major islands, Severny in the north and ...

During much of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, open-air nuclear testing was not only allowed but encouraged. We all know the story. In a bizarre dance of the superpowers, each built bigger ...

In the latest reference to nuclear weapons in the context of the war in Ukraine the head of Russia’s Novaya Zemlya nuclear test site said everything was ready to resume nuclear tests. In a report from ...