News & Press Releases
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.
25 October 2011
The relationship between the physical effects of climate change and effects on the ecosystem is complex. It is impossible to tell what climate change will to do biological resources in the Arctic.
24 October 2011
The government of Russia has finalized a state program for oil and gas exploration. The project is worth around 225-250 billion USD, the government putting in around 40 billion USD.
24 October 2011
The civilizations of northern Europe commercialized fishing, taking cod and herring in the seas off Norway and European Russia. During the past and recent years the Arctic and the Sub-Arctic was and will be a valuable food production area and has supplied over the years valuable nutrition for the south.
21 October 2011
Five species fill up just over 50 percent of the fisheries in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
21 October 2011
Fishing is the most important economy in Greenland, and a huge factor in Iceland.
21 October 2011
Here is a graph that shows how much six Arctic states caught. The numbers do not include whaling, but the numbers are in tons.
21 October 2011
Environmental study of proposed oil drilling near Jan Mayen will proceed in the near future, despite strong opposition of environmentalist, according to Reuters.
Jan Mayen is a Norwegian archipelago north of Iceland. The Map shows the EEZ around Jan Mayen, which Norway is entitled to.
21 October 2011
The eight Arctic states all catch fish. The species and quantity naturally varies between them.
Arctic Portal.org - 2024 © All rights reserved.
When quoting, reusing or copying any material on the arcticportal.org or any of its sub-sites including but not limiting to: information, news, articles, data, maps or images, in part or in full, a citation stating the origin and a hyperlink to www.arcticportal.org is required.