News & Press Releases
14 October 2014
The second international Polar Climate and Environmental Change in the Last Millennium will take place in Torun, Poland 24 – 26 of August 2015.
10 October 2014
Since the Stockholm Convention came into effect in 2004, banning persistent organic pollutants, the concentration of these pollutants has declined by up to 90%.
9 October 2014
Sweden is the first of the eight Arctic states and long members of European Union to officially recognize the state of Palestine.
8 October 2014
The annual Arctic Futures Symposium will take place in Brussels, Belgium at the Residence Palace conference centre in European District of the city. The conference will take place on Tuesday 14th of October and Wednesday, 15th of October.
3 October 2014
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is APECS is excited to announce that another leadership term has begun on 1 October 2014!
2 October 2014
Arctic Portal will promote the participation of young researchers, students, PhD students, future generation of experts on the Arctic, into the debate on Arctic issues.
30 September 2014
The School of Law, University of Dundee, UK and the K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø, Norway are pleased to announce the call for papers for "The European Union and the Arctic"(2015 EU-Arctic Conference).
25 September 2014
The two-days Energy Law Conference -The legal issues associated with the development and use of Arctic energy resources- just started this morning (25th September 2014) at the University of Tromsø, Faculty of Law (Norway).
24 September 2014
The Arctic's sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 17, 2014. Sea ice extent on that day was measured at 5.02 million square kilometers (1.94 million square miles). It was the sixth-lowest extent recorded since satellites began measuring sea ice in 1979. The number is above the 2012 record extent but is still below the long-term average.
22 September 2014
The conference Gender Equality in the Arctic will take place in Akureyri 30th – 31st of October 2014.
19 September 2014
The next Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting will take place in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada on 24-25 April 2015.
17 September 2014
Last week, tyhe West Nordic Council concluded its annual meeting, held this year in Vestmannaeyjar (Iceland). The west Nordic Council, which consists of Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, is an internal Nordic Council body dealing with regional policies, promoting regional interests and cooperation with neighbouring Countries.
16 September 2014
The second Arctic Circle conference will take place in Reykjavik on October 31, and November 1 and 2.
3 September 2014
Yesterday, 2nd of September 2014, Minister Aglukkaq opened the founding meeting of Arctic Economic Council, a body meant to help northerners become "the decision makers", as she said in the opening speech.
2 September 2014
Arctic Frontiers team has released the following news:
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