News & Press Releases
27 November 2012
A new report of current rates of changes of land ice in the Arctic and North-Atlantic region has been released. It shows that the Greenlandic glacier shrinks by 200 square kilometers every year.
27 November 2012
At the beginning of November 2012, The Russian government sparked major reactions internationally, when the country's Ministry of Justice ordered the closure of Russian's indigenous peoples' umbrella organization RAIPON, because of an "alleged lack of correspondence between the association's statutes and federal law".
23 November 2012
Arctic Transportation Infrastructure: Response Capacity and Sustainable Development one important component of the Arctic Marine and Aviation Transportation Infrastructure Initiative (AMATII) - opens Monday, December 3 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
22 November 2012
Argentinian scientists have discovered the largest penguin ever. Paleontologists from the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata province in Argentina announced this week that they have discovered fossils of 2 meter tall (6 1/2-foot) penguins in Antarctica.
21 November 2012
Norway and Russia have strengthened their joint research ventures by putting around €1,5 million Euros to three projects.
19 November 2012
Norway has decided to strengthen its security around Svalbard by sending its most modern warship to the archipelago.
8 November 2012
Norway's state-owned energy giant Statoil on Wednesday evacuated around 330 people from a North Sea platform off the coast of Norway after it began listing.
7 November 2012
An Icelandic woman starts her journey to the South Pole today. She intends to walk 1140 kilometers to be the first Icelandic women to reach the Pole.
1 November 2012
The first drilling for natural resources in Alaskan waters for over two decades has been completed for this year. Shell was drilling and intends to return next year to go even deeper.
30 October 2012
Arctic Portal is broadcasting live from the Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) workshop in Kautokeino, Norway, this week. The ARR is an Arctic Council project led by Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
26 October 2012
Arctic Portal is broadcasting live from the Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) workshop in Kautokeino, Norway, this week. The ARR is an Arctic Council project led by Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
26 October 2012
Russia opened its latest gas production site this week. President Vladimir Putin formally opened the commercial production at the Bovanenkovo field on the Yamal peninsula in extreme northwestern Siberia.
25 October 2012
The Australian runway on Antarctica is melting fast. The melting is causing problems in transport and there will be no flights from Australia to January.
24 October 2012
A polar bear and a cub were shot in the town of Kangaatsiaq in Greenland yesterday. The pair had been circling the town for a few days.
23 October 2012
One of the biggest oil deals in history was concluded this week. The Russian state-run company Rosneft is now on par with energy giant Exxon Mobil.
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