News & Press Releases
5 February 2014
The Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Fulbright Commission have signed an agreement to set up a Fulbright scholar grant in Arctic Studies. Through this agreement the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will fund US scholars to teach and conduct research in Arctic issues at Icelandic universities over the next three years.
31 January 2014
Northern (Arctic) Federal University and Presidential Library named after Boris Yeltsin organize an international webinar "The Day of the Arctic in the Presidential Library" on February, 28, 2014 from 11.00 to 12.30 (Moscow time).
30 January 2014
New shipping rules are soon to be agreed for the Arctic, where summer sea ice has shrunk by about two-thirds over three decades, opening a new ocean with vast natural resources.
29 January 2014
Norway and Canada have appealed a WTO ruling that supported an EU ban on the import and sale of seal products.
28 January 2014
Norway’s biggest energy company Statoil is considering quitting west Greenland in an effort to cut costs. The exploration licences are something the company is thinking about giving up as they are extremely expensive. Head of exploration
27 January 2014
A ridge of high pressure over western North America is allowing warm air from the subtropics to flow all the way up to Alaska, bringing with it unprecedented heat to places like Fairbanks, which has seen temperatures as high as 6°C. Normally, the daytime high is around -17°C.
23 January 2014
Iceland Geothermal Cluster which is a national network of organizations within the geothermal energy sector in Iceland will be facilitating the promising energy investment program, Startup Energy Reykjavik alongside Klak Innovit.
22 January 2014
Today, 22nd of January 2014 Arctic Frontiers conference opens its science session. This year´s theme: "Humans in the Arctic" will highlight current environmental and economic threats to peoples living in the High North.
21 January 2014
The Arctic Frontiers that have been taking place since Sunday, 19th of January.
The first 2 days of the conference has sold out and it is now not possible to register for the Policy Section of the conference.
20 January 2014
Yesterday, 19th of January 2013, Arctic Frontiers started in Tromsø, northern Norway.
17 January 2014
Advances in Polar Science together with the Arctic Portal invites you to submit manuscripts to a special issue on "The rapid change of Arctic sea ice and its possible effects on high- and mid-latitude weather and climate" of the Journal Advances in Polar Science (APS).
16 January 2014
Today, 16th of January 2014, the Iceland´s Minister of Foreign Affairs paid visit to the Arctic Portal office, located in Akureyri, northern Iceland.
15 January 2014
Today, 15th of January at the University of Akureyri, dr. Natalia Loukacheva gave her last speech as a Nansen professor.
14 January 2014
Tomorrow, 15th of January at the University of Akureyri, conference hall, dr. Natalia Loukacheva will give a public lecture titled: "Developing Arctic – from Nansen to modern times". The lecture will take place in room M101 12.00 – 13.00 h and it is open for public.
13 January 2014
Travel support is now available for students, teachers and researchers from Uarctic members to and from Danish, Greenlandic and Faroease institutions for Arctic – relevant mobility activities.
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