News & Press Releases
17 November 2011
Arctic Portal is proud to introduce its latest project, about biodiversity in Arctic waters. In cooperation with the Fisheries Science Center of the University of Akureyri, Vistey has opened.
16 November 2011
Science Nordic is a newly opened independent website for science news in english from the Nordic countries. The web site is a welcomed forum for Arctic research available in English.
11 November 2011
Canada will take special measures to protects its polar bears. Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent has declared the polar bear a "species of special concern".
11 November 2011
The Hariyo Ban project was introduced this week. The 5 year long program aims to reduce the adverse effects of climate change in Nepal.
11 November 2011
A huge rift has been discovered in the West Antarctica icesheet, forming a new gigantic iceberg.
8 November 2011
What happens when the vast amounts of carbon in Arctic soils are released to the atmosphere? This is the central question fieldresearchers, operators of long term observatories and modellers from 18 partner institutions in the EU intend to answer with the PAGE21 project.
3 November 2011
Scandinavian Resources have announced a major find of gold and copper in Finnmark, Norway.
1 November 2011
Denmark is looking to pave the way for China to the Arctic Council. Denmark wants China to become a permanent observer state in the organization.
31 October 2011
Stockholm University has two vacancies for PhD students for the PAGE 21 project. Both positions are in Physical Geography at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology.
27 October 2011
The University of the Arctic has released a statement following the decision by the government of Canada to cut its funding.
27 October 2011
Russia will spend 1,8 billion Euros on four state of the art icebreakers.
25 October 2011
The cod wars were political disputes between the governments of Iceland and Britain over fisheries management in the Icelandic maritime waters. The disputes were numerous between the years 1948 and 1976 and are called the Cod wars. The cod wars were numerous; they can be counted as three or even four.
25 October 2011
Iceland and Russia have signed a cooperation agenda regarding geothermal energy.
25 October 2011
In the decade following the adoption of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, fishing on the high seas became a major international problem.
25 October 2011
Coastal states have their maritime zones where they have exclusive access to all resources. The map on the right shows these zones.
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