News & Press Releases
8 April 2019
The President of Russia, Vladiminir Putin said that“Russia is striving unfailingly to consolidate collaboration with the states of the Arctic region.
5 April 2019
According to Smithsonian.com a new type of Arctic Dinosaur (the duck-billed, crested lambeosaurine) discovered in Alaska, ”shows that a diverse array of dinos lived in the warmer but still harsh Arctic 70 milliion years ago”.
3 April 2019
At his time of the year the Arctic sea ice usually reaches its greatest size freezing over the northern ocean. Recent satellite photos show that unfortunately that is not the case today compared to past years.
2 April 2019
The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue 5th International Artic Forum will be held in St. Petersburg on April 9-10.
1 April 2019
The Russian newsagency PenzaNews has published an article with interviews with leading Arctic experts, Anton Kobyakov (adviser to the president of Russia), Nikolai Korchunov (ambassador-at-large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Hannele Pokka (Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of the Environment of Finland), David Balton (Former Chair of Arctic Council), Alexander Kirilov (Director of Russian National Arctic Parks) and Halldór Jóhannsson (Director of Arctic Portal) on the Arctic and its developments “IAF in St. Petersburg to outline new ways of multi-vector cooperation in Arctic“.
29 March 2019
A recent discovery made by the scientists at NASA about Greenland´s fastest-flowing and fastest-thinning glacier actually growing thicker took the scientists by surprise. This is reported in an article written by Laura Gegget published on LiveScience.com based on a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
28 March 2019
An interesting disvovery was revealed after an archaelogical excavation in the eastern part of Iceland. According to the Icelandic newsprovider RUV “ An archaeologist believes that people of Sami origin may have been among a group that sailed to Iceland before the first known settlers to take natural resources from Stöð in Stöðvafjörður.
28 March 2019
A press release from the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum to be held in St. Petersburg 9-10 April states that the development of the Arctic’s transport infrastructure will be one of the main themes of the Forum.
27 March 2019
According to the newsprovider TASS “Russian and Chinese scientists will organize joint studies of the Arctic and Antarctic were they will explore mineral and biology resources in the global ocean“.
22 March 2019
The European Commission issued a press release on 18 March announcing that €2 billion is to be fast forwarded to the creation of the European Innovation Council.
22 March 2019
There is no Capelin (Mallotus villosus) to be found in Icelandic waters this year after extensive search by fisherman and research by the Maritime institute, leading to no quota issued, resulting in extreme financial consequences for people and small communities in Iceland. Capelin is considered the second most ecologically and economically important fish in Icelandic waters, with the yearly catch sometimes reaching over 1 million tonnes.
21 March 2019
According to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA “ Sea ice in the Arctic appears to have hit its annual maximum extent after growing through the fall and winter. The 2019 wintertime extent reached on March 13 ties with 2007’s as the 7th smallest extent of winter sea ice in the satellite record.“
20 March 2019
The biggest nation in the world and one of the smallest can now learn to speak each other´s language. According to the official gateway to the Faroe Islands (faroeislands.fo) a Chinese-Faroese dictionary is now available online for free for users anywhere in the world. The dictionary can be found on the Faroese dictionary portal Sprotin.
19 March 2019
Press release from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia: “Comprehensive plan "Implementation of the mineral and logistical potential of the Arctic", developed by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, sent to the Government of the Russian Federation.
12 March 2019
An interesting article on the Ecosystem service in the Arctic: a thematic review has recently been published and can now be found in our library. The article written by, Malinauskaite, Cook, Davíðsdóttir, Ögmundsdóttir and Roman presents a systematic review of the existing literature on Arctic Ecosystem Services (ES).
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