Looking North: The Russian Arctic

Russia’s Arctic region covers a wide expanse of land and water on the northern edge of our planet. As we will discover in this course, this unforgiving and largely uninhabited landscape holds a host of ancient hidden treasures and scientific conundrums, as well as being the epicenter of the planet’s ongoing climate crisis. Through recent scientific advancements and archaeological discoveries, this previously impenetrable region is certainly having a moment. This course will teach you critical environment, wildlife, and climate change vocabulary in Russian as you prepare to read and watch the media items in the lessons. Examples of the vocabulary that you will learn in this course include: изменение климата – climate change; научная экспедиция – scientific expedition; белый медведь – polar bear; труп – corpse; земной шар – globe