News & Press Releases
8 June 2015
The international Congress on Circumpolar Health starts today in Oulu, until the 12th of June 2015.
5 June 2015
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is organising an open competition with a view to recruiting a contract agent to work as Project Manager within the area of integrated marine state of the environment and further with a view to establishing a reserve list.
4 June 2015
The conference "Arctic Marine Resource Governance" is part of the project: Marine Resource Governance in the Arctic, financially supported by Nordic Council of Ministers' Arctic Co-operation Programme, the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Carlsberg Foundation.
3 June 2015
Yesterday, June 2nd, the US Embassy, the Canadian Embassy and the University of Akureyri jointly arranged the "Arctic Roundtable: Passing the Torch and Looking Ahead".
2 June 2015
Norden has recently released a new concise policy brief on "The Nordic Self-Governing Areas in a Peace Perspective : The Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Åland Islands", which summarizes the main findings of a broader study, published in Swedish with the support of the Northern Council, and available here.
1 June 2015
A 50% position for a research associate at postdoctoral level is available in the coordination office of the Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network PERMOS at the Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
29 May 2015
Institute of Physicoсhemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Scientific Council on Earth Cryology and Institute of Earth Cryosphere of Russian Academy of Sciences would like to invite you to take part in the International conference "Permafrost in XXI century: basic and applied researches".
28 May 2015
PRESS RELEASE BY NSF
The Arctic Section in the Division of Polar Programs, Geosciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces staffing changes for the Arctic Observing Network program.
27 May 2015
An international panel of experts will come together at the University of Dundee this week to explore how European Union countries can prevent the Arctic from environmental catastrophe.
26 May 2015
Different news sources have recently reported that the Russian company MMC Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium (read more about MMC Norilsk Nickel here) has planned to sell the Arkhangelsk sea trade port by the end of 2015.
22 May 2015
The EU-Polar Net has recently confirmed that the EU has granted €2 million to run the EU-Polar Net for five more years.
21 May 2015
Yesterday the White House issued a brief press release to inform that President Obama will address to the United States Coast Guard Academy the importance of acting on climate change and the risks to national security this global threat poses.
20 May 2015
The 10th Arctic Frontiers conference will be arranged in Tromsø, Norway from Sunday 24 January to Friday 29 January 2016. The title for the 2016 conference is Industry and Environment.
19 May 2015
In November 2014, President of the United States, Barack Obama (US) and President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, released the historical "U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change".
19 May 2015
On the 26-28 May 2015 the 3rd China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will take place in Shanghai and the conference theme is "Arctic Synergies: Polices and Best Practice". All presentations will focus on Arctic-related issues, within one of the session topics:
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