News & Press Releases
27 February 2018
UArctic and the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) are pleased to announce an opportunity for 20 students from UArctic member institutions in Arctic States to participate in the 4th Korea Arctic Academy in Korea - a 10 day study program in July 5-14, 2018 at KMI together with students from Korean universities.
19 February 2018
The february 2018 edition of the EU-Polarnet is out!
An online version of it can be accessed here.
12 February 2018
ACI’s 12th Arctic Shipping Summit will be taking place 21-22 February, 2018 in Montreal, Canada.
8 February 2018
Call it a new cold war: Russia, China and the United States all vying for influence and control in a part of the world that, this time, is quite literally cold.
31 January 2018
The Call for Abstracts for the UArctic Congress is now open until March 16, 2018. We welcome submissions to more than fifty science sessions to be held in Oulu from September 5 and concluding in Helsinki on September 7, 2018.
26 January 2018
Foreword
Global warming in recent years has accelerated the melting of ice and snow in the Arctic region. As economic globalization and regional integration further develops and deepens, the Arctic is gaining global significance for its rising strategic, economic values and those relating to scientific research, environmental protection, sea passages, and natural resources.
22 January 2018
Just in time for the start of the Arctic Winter Special Observing Period a brandnew issue of the PolarPredictNews is available at http://www.polarprediction.net/news/polarpredictnews/
19 January 2018
The full report and highlights are available at: https://www.arcus.org/sipn/sea-ice-outlook/2017/post-season.
11 January 2018
Advances in Polar Science (APS) will publish a special issue with the theme ‘Polar Climate Change: Driving Processes, Extreme Events, and Global Linkages’ as a lasting outcome of the workshop, held in October 2017 at Hohai University, Nanjing, China. This issue will be part of APS Volume 29 and will be issue number 3 of 2018 (Series no. 72) as general issue.
30 December 2017
On Friday December 8th President Vladimir Putin launched the first loading of liquefied natural gas at $27 billion Yamal LNG project.
29 December 2017
On Friday 1 December 2017, Mr. Anders Samuelsen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Ms. Suka K. Frederiksen, Minister of Independence, Foreign Affairs and Agriculture Greenland, in partnership with the Arctic Economic Council and planned together with the Faroe Islands, hosted an international high-level Conference in Copenhagen on the Sustainable Development Goals in the Arctic.
18 December 2017
A South Korean shipping association has become the first non-Arctic member of the Arctic Economic Council, underscoring Seoul's efforts to establish an Arctic economic rim that would benefit the country's shipping and energy interests.
15 December 2017
A public consultation to evaluate the EU's Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change was launched on Thursday afternoon and is available in 23 languages.
13 December 2017
In partnership with APECS
As two international organizations based in Akureyri, Iceland, the Conservation of Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), are teaming up together and with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) to help early career scientists get more involved in the process of taking research from results through to science policy recommendations.
11 December 2017
The Edu-Arctic project, www.edu-arctic.eu is reaching out and sending warm wishes to all. Watch the EDU-ARCTIC Christmas VIDEO! We hope you’ll enjoy it and – most of all – that all the good wishes will come true!
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