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Yesterday, August 24th,the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague ruled in favor of the 30 Greenpeace activists that in the in the morning of 18 September 2013 used the vessel Arctic Sunrise to stage a protest action at the Russian offshore oil production platform Prirazlomnaya, located in the Barents Sea in Russia's EEZ.
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The "September Sea Ice Outlook: August Report" has just been released by ARCUS.
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The executive council of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) held it's Executive Council Meeting in Bethel, Alaska on 18-19 August 2015.
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The Arctic Circle 2015 will be held in Reykjavik, 16-18 October 2015.The full draft program for the 2015 Assembly is now available.
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Organizers announce the availability of a National Weather Service Alaska Climate Forecast Briefing webinar.
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Washington — After extensive review and under a robust array of safety requirements, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director Brian Salerno today announced that Shell has received approval of one Application for Permit to Modify (APM) to conduct exploratory drilling activities into potential oil-bearing zones offshore Alaska at one of the wells at the Burger Prospect, Burger J. The company remains limited to the top section of the Burger V well.
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A group of Dolgan herders have released few time ago a parody of thehit "Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars".
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Later this month, President Obama will travel to Alaska and shine a spotlight on what Alaskans in particular have come to know: Climate change is one of the biggest threats we face, it is being driven by human activity, and it is disrupting Americans' lives right now.
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The Eighth Polar Law Symposium will be held in Alaska, September 23-26 2015.
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With the successful first-year try-out of CNARC fellowship program in Year 2014, CNARC Secretariat is about to launch its Fellowship Program for Year 2015 - 2016.
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The third annual Trans Arctic Agenda will merge with the 8th NRF Open Assembly and takeplace in Reykjavik, Iceland on 14-15 October 2015. The theme of 2015 is Engaging CulturalHeritage when Building Resilience.
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Every summer, a number of pilot whales was hunted on the island of Vágar in the northwest of the Faroe Islands archipelago.
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Registration is open for the Arctic Energy Summit 2015 ""Security and Affordability for a Resilient North", that will be held inFairbanks, Alaska, on September 28-30.
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A selection of Arctic Portal maps are now available online for free download. Since 2009, Arctic Portal has been providing visual information about Arctic related information (as sea-ice conditions, shipping lines, resources, Arctic people, governance, etc..) through various databases.
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"On 3 August 2015, the Russian Federation submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, in accordance with Article 76, paragraph 8, of the Convention, and with reference to its Submission of 20 December 2001, information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of its territorial sea is measured in respect of the Arctic Ocean" theCommission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)'s website reported yesterday.
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