News & Press Releases
15 December 2011
Russian scientists are baffled after finding plumes of methane in the Arctic Ocean. The scale and volume of the methane was a huge surprise to the researchers.
15 December 2011
Doctoral and post-doctoral researcher anywhere in the world (under 35 years old) are invited to propose research project to the InBev-Baillet Latour Fund, which will we granting 150.000 Euros to the projects.
14 December 2011
As reported here on Arctic Portal today is 100 years since Roald Amundsen step foot on the South Pole, the first person to do so.
14 December 2011
Today marks the 100 year anniversary of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen being the first person to reach the South Pole. Celebrations in Antarctica will last over a month.
13 December 2011
Canada has announced it will withdraw from the Kyoto protocol. Peter Kent, minister of the environment, confirmed this last night.
13 December 2011
Pictures of a polar bear dragging its own cub after killing it has shook many. The telling pictures by nature photographer Jenny Ross were published yesterday.
12 December 2011
"Today, we saved tomorrow," the chair of the UN Climate talks in South Africa stated, after lengthy negotiations led to a new climate agreement.
12 December 2011
Greenland is rising from the sea. A new study released on Friday shows a startling revelation to scientists who study global warming.
12 December 2011
Iceland showed last week why it is indeed ice-land. This amazing photograph taken by a NASA satellite is from the Earth Science department of the University of Iceland.
9 December 2011
Danish researchers believe they have a breakthrough in tidal power, using the waves of the ocean to generate energy.
8 December 2011
The Arctic Cup starts today with exciting matches in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Arctic Cup is an International Ice Hockey tournament of Arctic Countries the Arctic states.
7 December 2011
The venue for the 5th Polar Law symposium will be Rovaniemi in Finland. The symposium is held in September 2012.
7 December 2011
As reported here on Arctic Portal Icelandic glaciers are retreating fast, and now the BBC reports the same problem in France.
5 December 2011
Iceland could lose all its glaciers in a few hundred years. A glacier expert predicts a 6m rise of the sea.
2 December 2011
The 2011 Arctic Report Card has been published. Amongst the results are significant changes in the atmosphere and the sea ice and the ocean.
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