News & Press Releases
31 October 2019
The IX International Forum “Arctic: Today and the future” will be held under the sign of new state plans for the integrated development of the Arctic.
29 October 2019
Northern Forum held a very successful youth Eco-Forum in Akureyri the hometown of Arctic Portal from 7-10 October. Halldór Jóhannsson the executive director of Arctic Portal met the children, listened to their reports and was very impressed with their work.
16 October 2019
The EU Horizon2020-funded project Nunataryuk in cooperation with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the Terrestrial Multidisciplinary distributed Observatories for the Study of Arctic Connections (T-MOSAiC) are organizing the Nunataryuk-APECS-T-MOSAiC School 2020 on the topic of “Arctic Coastal Adaptation - Capacity building and knowledge exchange across borders” at Abisko Scientific Research Station (Abisko, Sweden) from 21 - 30 April 2020.
14 October 2019
With the successful operations of CNARC fellowship program for the past years, CNARC Secretariat is about to launch its Fellowship Program for Year 2019 – 2020.
10 October 2019
The Arctic Circle began this morning in Reykjavík, Iceland with many interesting topics and sessions. Among the topics of today are the foreign policy of Greenland and U.S.A. as well as security issues in the Arctic and science collaboration.
9 October 2019
SAON has published its Autumn 2019 newsletter with newsheading such as Developing a Roadmap for Arctic Observing and Data Systems (ROADS), International Arctic Observations Assessment Framework – Value Tree for Physical Atmosphere and Ocean Observations in the Arctic as well as promoting events such as the Third Polar Data Forum that will be held in Finland 18-22 November this year and the 5th Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) that will be held in Iceland 31 March – 2 April 2020.
7 October 2019
The Scottish government published its first Arctic Policy Framework on 23 September 2019. On that occasion Scotland´s External Affairs Secretary said, “Scotland has the expertise and vision to serve as a link between the Arctic region and the wider world with opportunities to help tackle issues such as sustainable tourism, renewable energy and climate change.”
3 October 2019
The EU Arctic Forum is being held today and tomorrow, October 3 and 4, in Umeå , Sweden.
2 October 2019
One of the organization that has frequently been mentioned in regards to the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize is the Arctic Council. The Council has been nominated before with a formal nomination letter written by a group of international academics in January 2018. The winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on 11 October.
18 September 2019
MOSCOW — Russia’s first-floating nuclear power plant has arrived to its permanent base near the isolated Russian town of Pevek, on the Chukchi Sea across the Bering Strait from Alaska, Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom said on Saturday.
13 September 2019
On Thursday, 12 September the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that would remove oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (The Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act) from the 2017 tax bill.
12 September 2019
The newsprovider NRK recently published an alarming article based on data accumulated by the NSIDC and visualized by NASA about the dramatic change in sea ice prevalence in the Arctic Ocean over the past 35 years.
10 September 2019
The Arctic Council is the leading intergovernmental forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, Arctic indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues, in particular on issues of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic.
5 September 2019
International Data Week (IDW) is organized by the Committee on Data (CODATA) and the World Data System (WDS) of the International Science Council (ISC), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA).
5 September 2019
Mr. Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States, and Mr. Gudlaugur Thór Thórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, led a round table discussion on strengthening commercial, scientific and cultural ties between the US and Iceland with the participation of key American and Icelandic business leaders in Höfði, Reykjavík on 4th September 2019.
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