News & Press Releases
9 January 2012
Norway has found the cornerstone of its oil production for the next year. The Barents Region of Skrugard is thought to give Norway up to 900 million barrels of oil.
5 January 2012
Norway hopes to use the Northern Sea Route in a few months. Increased shipping saw 27 vessels using the route last year, a huge increase like indeed in the Northern Sea route.
4 January 2012
Around 18.000 tons of scrap metal will be removed from the Arctic in 2012 by Russia. The country is cleaning up the Arctic and hundreds of millions of rubles will be injected to the program.
30 December 2011
No radioactive materials leaked from the nuclear submarine Yekaterinburg who caught fire yesterday. The submarine was in a floating dock which caught fire.
28 December 2011
The Russian fishing vessel Sparta is free from the ice which held the ship for nearly two weeks.
28 December 2011
The melting of the Greenlandic glacier is rapid. The record of 2010 was not broken this year, yet it was over the long term average melt.
27 December 2011
The European Space Agency will use its powerful satellite for monitoring weather conditions to enhance marine safety. This will benefit the Arctic as the CryoSat is designed for measuring thickness of ice.
22 December 2011
The Russian nuclear powered icebreaker Vaygach is up and sailing again after a fire last week. The tragic accident cost two lives.
21 December 2011
A huge project in Norway enters its final year in January. The NORKLIMA project, The Research Council of Norway's 10-year Large-scale programme on Climate Change and its Impacts in Norway, is entering its final stages.
19 December 2011
An oil rig sunk yesterday in the Sea of Okhotsk where 14 people lost their lives. Many are still missing but 67 were on the rig.
16 December 2011
A Russian fishing boat is trapped in heavy sea ice near Antarctica and its crew has moved to lifeboats. The ship is in danger of cracking and sinking so the crew evacuated the ship. It has reported a hole in its hull beneath the water line.
16 December 2011
Russia's revised submission for their claim of the Arctic shelf boarders is almost complete. Russia was rejected earlier this year after submitting a claim for expanding its shelf borders to the UN commission, because of lack of information.
16 December 2011
Around 100 Beluga whales are trapped in sea ice in the Bering Sea. They await rescue or face death.
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.
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