News & Press Releases
7 March 2019
The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) has released the Global Mercury Assessment 2018.
6 March 2019
A meeting between Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, and Mikko Hautala, Ambassador of Finland to Russia, took place on 4 March.
5 March 2019
The International Arctic Forum business programme has been released. The event will take place in St. Petersburg on 9–10 April 2019, under three main pillars: Coastal Territories, The Open Ocean, and Sustainable Development.
28 February 2019
An article written by Anna Kurcirkova about the crises whales are facing by humans was published recently.
27 February 2019
According to the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East the Russian President Vladimir Putin “has signed a decree transferring the functions for the formulation and implementation of the state policy and regulatory framework for the socioeconomic development of the Arctic to the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and renamed it the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic.
25 February 2019
The 7th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will take place in Shanghai, China, 8-9 May 2019 under the theme "Arctic Fisheries, Polar Silk Road, and Sustainable Development Practices” with thematic sessions covering the following topics: "Polar Silk Road: Vision, Progress and Outlook”, "Arctic Fisheries”, and "China-Nordic Policy Synergies on Arctic Sustainable Development”.
22 February 2019
Last autumn 50 international polar experts gathered in La Cristalera, a town in the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. Over the course of five days, their task was to draft a set of polar white papers.
22 February 2019
The International Economic Forum will be held in St. Petersburg on 6-8 June 2019. The business programme of the forum will include a panel discussion on modern approaches to managing the World Ocean and the contribution of shipbuilders to its conservation and study.
21 February 2019
The astronomy picture of the day on February 18 at NASA's website was of an amazing aurora borealis taken in Iceland by the photographers Jingyi Zhang and Wang Zheng.
21 February 2019
Even though Greta Thunberg is only 15 years old she has become well known for her fight against climate change. She was born on 3 January 2003 in Sweden and became deeply interested in the environment at an early age or around eight years old.
20 February 2019
Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network released its newsletter today. Among very interesting articles is one from the news provider Eye on the Arctic were the PM of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir expresses disappointment with the US withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement to the US Secretary of State mr. Michael Pompeo. Mr Pompeo visited Iceland on 15 February to have discussion both with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson.
19 February 2019
US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo visited Iceland on February 15th. He met with the Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and the Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson to discuss security issues in the North Atlantic and Iceland´s upcoming chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
15 February 2019
Alaska's new Governor Mike Dunleavy announced big budget cuts on February 13th that is bound to have great impact on Arctic Alaska and will deeply affect the educational institutions and inhabitants of the state.
14 February 2019
The authorities have declared a state of an emergency in Belushya Guba in northern Russia's Novaya Zemlya islands because of dozens of polar bears invading the settlement.
12 February 2019
The catalogue includes detailed information on European research facilities (stations, camps, laboratories, shelters, vessels and aircrafts) in the Arctic and Antarctic.
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