The Yamal Peninsula’s permafrost layer, a massive sheet of frozen earth extending up to 300 meters deep, is capped by an active layer that thaws and refreezes with the seasons.

It’s mid-July, and the group of Nenets herders that Yuri leads are about halfway through an annual trek that takes them 400 miles north on the Yamal Peninsula to the Arctic coast—in normal ...

Yamal LNG is Novatek’s first LNG plant. The project is being implemented on the Yamal peninsula in Russia Arctic region. It envisages the launch of three trains, each with the capacity of 5.5 ...

MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin gave start to the full-scale development of the Kharasaveyskoye field by Gazprom at the Yamal peninsula on Wednesday. He took part in the ...

Enormous crater appeared suddenly in part of Russia, Yamal, where name translates as 'the end of the world' Some thought the rare and unusual structure, which was up to 300ft (70 metres ...

New US sanctions deal an unprecedented blow to the companies that over the past decade have developed major oil and gas resources in one of the most remotest parts of the planet.

32 new gas fields are opening in the Yamal Peninsula, northern Russia. They could provide enough gas to heat a quarter of the homes in Europe for 35 years. Special ships, capable of breaking ...

Good question: Ural says the word Yamal "means "the end of the Earth," and is "a peninsula in Russia known for being nothing short of inhospitable, barren, and perpetually frozen." It's also the ...