News & Press Releases
10 May 2019
The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that it plans to establish a presence in Greenland.
8 May 2019
A really interesting and important project that is partly Icelandic called CarbFix is developing an industrial process to capture CO2 (carbon dioxide) and other sour gasses from emissions sources and permanently store it as rock in the subsurface. Furthermore, it is also possible that he process can be applied in relation to direct capture of CO2 from air.
8 May 2019
At the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, Ministers of the eight Arctic States, leaders from the six indigenous Permanent Participant organizations and the Chairs of the six Working Groups of the Arctic Council met to mark the passing of the Chairmanship from Finland to Iceland.
6 May 2019
The Final Program of the 2019 Arctic Circle China Forum, is now available. The Forum will be held 10 – 11 May in Shanghai. The Program lists over 150 speakers from Asia, Europe and North America in 25 sessions on topics including the Polar Silk Road, science and innovation, oceans, transport, energy and governance.
3 May 2019
The US is fighting against climate change language in Arctic Council declaration, Arctic Today reports. Very similar to the Ministerial meeting in Salekhard in 2006, Halldór Jóhannsson of the Arctic Portal witnessed and recalls very clearly under the Bush administration.
29 April 2019
We are now inviting you to submit ship-time proposals requesting access to MSV Fennica, RV Kronprins Haakon and IB Oden to carry out ship-based research activities within any field of marine science in the Arctic Ocean (restrictions may apply, check the specific access conditions for each vessel and vessel descriptions)
26 April 2019
Leaders from 37 countries and dozens of officials are gathering in Bejing, China for a summit on China's Belt and Road initiative. According to BBC there is a growing criticism of the project. "At the first day of the forum in Beijing, Chinese Finance Minister Liu Kun said China aims to make the Belt and Road initiative sustainable and to prevent debt risks.
23 April 2019
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new Arctic Strategy Outlook this year the last Coast Guard Arctic Strategy was released in 2013. In the foreword, Admiral Karl L. Schultz writes “This Arctic Strategic Outlook reaffirms our commitment to American leadership in the region through partnership, unity of effort, and continuous innovation.
16 April 2019
The II Northern Forum Governors’ Meeting (the II Meeting) was held on April 10th, and was recognized as the one of key events of the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum.
The II Meeting was moderated by Alexander Tsybulskiy, Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
12 April 2019
According to the newsprovider High North News a compromise made in 1988 between USA and Canada about who holds the rights to the Northwest Passage seems to be cracking.
11 April 2019
The ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum 2019 brought together more than 3,600 representatives of Russian and international political, scientific and business circles, the public and leading mass media. This is one and a half times more than during the last Forum in 2017.
10 April 2019
An interesting article by Sue Mitchell called Air temperatures in the Arctic are driving system change was published in the newsprovider phys.org recently stating that air temperature is the "smoking gun" behind climate change in the Arctic.
10 April 2019
Agree on developing a common roadmap for implementing joint investment projects in such areas as cross-border transport infrastructure and deep processing of primary resources in the Russian Federation, including through the use of the mechanisms of special economic territories and tourism infrastructure.
9 April 2019
This morning a live broadcasting was send out from the International Arctic Forum of the plenary session “The Arctic An Ocean of Opportunity”. The Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of Iceland Guðni Jóhannesson, President of Finland Sauli Niinistö, Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg and Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven were on the panel.
9 April 2019
The Wilson Center´s Polar Institute has a new program series about the international and local implications of this new Arctic to an Alaskan audience who are mostly directly affected. The series The Arctic and U.S. National Security has already began or started on Monday, April 8 but will continue through Friday, April 12 on GCI Channel 907, starting at 8. pm each day.
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