News & Press Releases
1 September 2014
Japan, China and South Korea agreed to work together to ensure the safety of ship operations in the Arctic, reports Japan's Jiji Press.
29 August 2014
A fissure eruption started in Holuhraun, north of Dynjujökul around midnight.
28 August 2014
The founding meeting of the Arctic Economic Council (AEC), an new independent body of the Arctic Council, aiming at working to foster sustainable development, including economic growth, environmental protection and social development in the Arctic, has been scheduled on September 2-3 2014, in Iqaluit, Nunavut(Canada).
26 August 2014
This coming December, international academic publishing house, Brill, will release Offshore Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic under International Law, Risk and Responsibility by Professor Rachael Lorna Johnstone of the University of Akureyri, Iceland.
25 August 2014
The 7th Polar Law Symposium will be held on 29-31 October 2014, in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia. This will be the first time the event has been held in the Southern Hemisphere.
22 August 2014
Few days ago Marsh LLC, a company for insurance broking and risk management based in New York, has released the paper "Arctic Shipping: Navigating the Risk and Opportunities".
20 August 2014
On 25 and 26 September 2014 the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, Tromsø, will host a conference on the legal issues associated with the developments and use of energy resources in the Arctic. The conference aims to bring together scholars, graduate students, practitioners, representatives of the energy industry, non-governmental organizations and indigenous peoples to discuss a range of legal issues associated with the development and use of energy resources in the Arctic.
19 August 2014
An intense seismic activity at Bárðarbunga (Vatnajokull area) has started on 16 of August. During the past 3 days, thousand of earthquakes in the area have been registered.
18 August 2014
The newly appointed U.S. special Arctic representative, former Coast Guard Commandant Robert Papp, has issued a call for ideas about policies that should be promoted at the Arctic Council once the United States assumes chairmanship of that eight-nation body next year.
15 August 2014
This year, Operation Nanook, the Canadian military’s largest recurring operation in the North, will run from August 20 to 29, and will focus on Search an Rescue (SAR) operations in the waters off the country’s northern coast, and will feature two exercises.
14 August 2014
Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Journal invites submissions for a Special Issue on "Emerging issues in Polar Energy Law and Governance" (Guest editor for this special issue is Dr Tina Hunter, Director of the Centre for International Minerals and Energy Law Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland).
13 August 2014
NJF Seminar "Reindeer herding and land use management – Nordic perspectives" will take place in Rovaniemi 20-21 October 2014 at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland.
12 August 2014
The fourth International Meeting of the Arctic Council Member States took place in Naryan-Mar, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia on August 5-7.
11 August 2014
V International Workshop on Circumpolar Socio-cultural Issues is to be held in Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, on September 25-26, 2014, organized by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Iceland, under the auspices of the International Association of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues (IACSI).
8 August 2014
Since 2006, 11 different states have appointed Arctic ambassadors or envoys, and on July 16th the United States became the 12th, with Secretary of State John Kerry naming Admiral Robert Papp, the recently retired commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, as its Special Representative to the Arctic.
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