News & Press Releases
22 June 2020
The head of the Rosatom State Corporation, Alexei Likhachev, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that in 2019, the volume of traffic along the Northern Sea Route amounted to 5.5 million tons, and in 2020 it could exceed 30 million tons.
12 June 2020
Today, on June 12, is the National Day of Russia or as locally called Den Rossii (Russia Day) an occasion for many Russians to demonstrate national pride. On this day in 1990, Russia became an independent nation following the official adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which was then followed by the establishment of the national anthem and flag.
12 June 2020
The Icelandic Marine & Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) is working on a twelve year project aimed at mapping the seabed around Iceland. The project started in the year 2017.
7 May 2020
The report Moving a Conference from Iceland to Zoom gathers best practices and lessons learned from moving and hosting the Arctic Science Summit Week 2020 (ASSW2020) online.
30 April 2020
NOAA EarthData webinar will be held on 6 May 2020, 6-7 pm UTC on Accessing and Analyzing Snow Data at the NSIDC DACC (The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center) with Amy Steiker and Walt Meier.
27 April 2020
Rosneft Oil Company has launched the implementation of a programme to assess the sustainability of the Arctic ecosystems based on research on key Arctic animal species in the Russian Federation. By 2023, Rosneft will conduct eight expeditions to the Laptev, Barents and Kara Seas.
21 April 2020
This Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—and we are hoping you might be willing to help the Wilson Center celebrate by becoming a citizen scientist!
17 April 2020
The Icepot is a series of podcasts about polar science and the people managed and produced by Kirstin Werner and Sara Pasqualetto from the International Coordination Office of the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP). The IcePod is the official YOPP Podcast and will feature people involved in MOSAiC, the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate.
26 March 2020
The Arctic Science Summit Week 2020 will be held online from 27 March to 2 April 2020. You can find some useful information on the event and how to join different parts on the RANNIS website https://en.rannis.is/news/the-arctic-science-summit-week-updated-program
24 March 2020
The CNARC symposium at Umeå University, which was planned for May 27-29 this year, has been postponed due to the Corona virus situation.
11 March 2020
An announcement regarding the Arctic Science Summit Week 2020:
10 March 2020
INTERACT kindly invites all members of the INTERACT Community to participate in the INTERACT Photo Competition 2020. The purpose of the competition is to gather high-quality photographs from the Arctic and northern boreal and alpine areas for use in an INTERACT Coffee Table Book to be published in autumn 2020 to celebrate INTERACT and its achievements since its start in 2011.
9 March 2020
8 March is the global International Women's Day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The theme for the campaign in 2020 is EachforEqual - an equal world is an enabled world.
4 March 2020
International Summer School "The Living North" will be held 14-20 July 2020 in Arkhangelsk, Russia organized by the Arctic Art Institute, Northern (Arctic) Federal University.
26 February 2020
Ash Wednesday is today, 27 February, and on that occasion children in Iceland dress up in costumes and go out in the community, usually in small groups, visiting companies and singing in exchange for candy. This morning companies in Akureyri had fun listening to children singing all kinds of songs and in return giving them treats.
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