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The General Assembly 2015 of the EU-funded PAGE21, "Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century", will be held at the KEA Hotel in Akureyri, Iceland 13 – 15 October 2015.
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Following the success of the fourth meeting of the International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN) in Christchurch (NZ), the fifth meeting is set to take place in end August 2016 in the northeast of Iceland.
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Following the success of the 2011 inaugural Summit, Eye on Earth 2015 took centre stage on October 6-8 in Abu Dhabi, to promote dialogue and drive international action that revolutionises the way we collect, access, share and use data and information for real-world change. The 2015 summit soughtto foster a culture of collaboration through a network committed to achieving scalable impact for a sustainable future.
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The Nordic ruralities conference is an interdisciplinary forum for rural research with a particular emphasis on the Nordic countries.
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Green Growth was named a primary focus area by the Nordic Prime Ministers in November 2011. Since then, the Nordic Council of Ministers has granted a total of DKK 66 million to a wide range of initiatives focusing on green growth.
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Today, the BarentsObserver has reported that Russia will establish a new media resource aimed at promoting Russian national interest in the Arctic, as part of the state-owned TASS (the piece of news was reported firstly byTASS, available only in Russian).
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Today, The Gordon Foundation released the full report of "Rethinking the Top of the World: Arctic Public Opinion Survey, Vol. 2" at the Arctic Energy Summit in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Today, Monday September 28th, the Arctic Energy Summit starts in Fairbanks, Alaska. The event is broadcasted live here.
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The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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The Annual International Forum "Arctic: Today And The Future" takes place in December in St. Petersburg.
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Today, typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) calling for an investigation into the responsibility of big fossil fuel companies for fuelling catastrophic climate change that is resulting in human rights violations" Greenpeace Philippines reported this morning.
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Circum-Arctic Gallery, a Canadian-Icelandic based company, is hosting the first International Arctic Art Show in Reykjavik from the 15th to19th of October 2015 and aims to promote the work of indigenous artists from across the Arctic Circle, providing a platform to show case their work and reach a wider audience.
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The latest edition of the "Arctic Herald" journal is now available online. The information and analyticaljournal, published by the Russian Geographical Society, was first released in 2012 and "conceived as the platform for communication amonf the expert community, as well as all those engaged and interested in the problems of today's Arctic", as stated by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, for the first number of the journal.
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MastersInDataScience.org is a new online resource that features a comprehensive directory of Master's degree programs in data science (and interdisciplinary programs in related specialties) as well as entertaining and history-rich discussions of the uses of data science in various industries.
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At its first session since the 1 September election, the Faroese Parliament today appointed Aksel V. Johannesen, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, as the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
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