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China’s research icebreakers Xuelong, or «Snow Dragon,» and Xuelong 2 returned to Shanghai in east China on Wednesday after nearly three months of the country’s 16th Arctic Ocean expedition.

Chinese researchers have captured five juvenile polar cod in a densely ice-covered area in the high Arctic, a discovery that may deepen scientists’ understanding of the species and its habitat’s ecosystem.

A Belarusian teenager has set off for the North Pole as part of the Icebreaker of Knowledge international expedition, BelTA has learned from the press service of the country office of the Rosatom State Corporation in Belarus.