News & Press Releases
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).
11 March 2019
The tenth issue of Polar Prediction News for March 2019 has been published. It includes a feature by Halldór Jóhannsson the manager of Arctic Portal on the Future of Arctic Shipping.
7 March 2019
According to the Russian newsagent TASS, Russia is putting the Northern Sea Route under its protection. However, US representatives have repeatedly stated that they are also interested in the Northern Sea Route and that they as well as Canada, number of European countries and even China will claim access to the North.
7 March 2019
A success story on the Arice project that Arctic Portal is a partner in has been published online on the webpage of the European Commission.
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