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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.
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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.
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Canada has announced it will withdraw from the Kyoto protocol. Peter Kent, minister of the environment, confirmed this last night.
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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.
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"Today, we saved tomorrow," the chair of the UN Climate talks in South Africa stated, after lengthy negotiations led to a new climate agreement.
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Greenland is rising from the sea. A new study released on Friday shows a startling revelation to scientists who study global warming.
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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.
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Danish researchers believe they have a breakthrough in tidal power, using the waves of the ocean to generate energy.
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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.
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The venue for the 5th Polar Law symposium will be Rovaniemi in Finland. The symposium is held in September 2012.
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As reported here on Arctic Portal Icelandic glaciers are retreating fast, and now the BBC reports the same problem in France.
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Iceland could lose all its glaciers in a few hundred years. A glacier expert predicts a 6m rise of the sea.
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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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Denmark will be self-sufficient with oil and gas, at least until 2050. These new numbers are much higher then anticipated.
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Greenpeace fooled oil company executives into a meeting to lecture them about exploration. A real meeting was held, but the executives were directed to another location.
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