News & Press Releases
18 October 2023
The Registry of Polar Observing Networks (RoPON) is now available online at https://polarobservingregistry.org.
RoPON is a catalogue of systems and related organisations that coordinate or track observing activities & infrastructure at high latitudes. It includes discovery-level details such as network description, observational scope, spatial extent, and data or metadata access, along with links for more information.
17 October 2023
On behalf of the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), we inform you that in accordance with the decision of its organizers, the Northern Sustainable Development Forum, previously scheduled for November 7-10, 2023 in Yakutsk, was postponed to the second half of the year 2024.
13 October 2023
In the realm of Arctic climate science, a chilling predicament is unfolding as a result of geopolitical tensions. The frosty relations between Russia and the Western world are having profound consequences, both politically and scientifically. It is imperative to safeguard climate, environmental and social science, not least the expert-to-expert relations that have been building for the last decades and the valuable knowledge and data from the grip of this turbulent geopolitical struggle.
12 October 2023
The Fountain is hosting an Arctic Youth Gathering today, October 12th, as a pre-event for the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik October 19-21. The event is live-streamed for free and open viewing. Join through the links below at 8 PM CET/ 11 AM Pacific/ 6 PM GMT / 4 PM GMT-2.
11 October 2023
The 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly is set to be an exceptional and impactful event, bringing together a vast array of expertise and perspectives to address the critical issues facing the Arctic region. Over the course of three days, from October 19th to 21st, the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík, Iceland, will serve as the dynamic backdrop for this gathering, which is expected to be one of or possibly the most significant Arctic-focused conferences of the year. The final program is now out!
10 October 2023
The fifth Polar Data Forum (PDF V) is scheduled to take place from 30 October to 3 November 2023, at the Aurora Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK. The deadline for registration is 11 October.
5 October 2023
The alarming reality of overfishing is driven by the ever-increasing global demand for fish, which has more than doubled since the 1980s. With over 3 billion people relying on fish as their primary source of protein and a world population that has quadrupled since the 1960s, our oceans face immense pressure. Approximately 30 percent of commercially fished waters are now classified as 'overfished.'
2 October 2023
In the period from September 11 to 28, an expedition was held on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as part of the project "Creation of a virtual museum of traditional culture of indigenous minorities of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation," carried out on the state task of the Ministry of Education.
29 September 2023
The latest from the Wilson Center´s Environmental Change & Security Program, September Quarterly, written by Lauren Risi Director of the ECSP.
29 September 2023
The second webinar of the Arctic Expert-to-Expert Initiative, titled “Arctic expert-to-expert cooperation for the future,” was part of the Nord University High North Dialogue 2023. It took place on April 18th and streamed online. The primary focus of the event was to underscore the vital importance of Arctic expert-to-expert cooperation, particularly given the climate crisis and the complex geopolitical circumstances faced by the region.
27 September 2023
251 applications from around 60 countries were received for the first 10 Grímsson´s Fellows. The 10 chosen fellows are invited to stay for 2-6 weeks in the House of Grímur, where former President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was born and his family lived. The house is in the historic town of Ísafjörður, the capital of the beautiful Westfjords region in Iceland.
25 September 2023
The 8th China – Nordic Arctic Cooperation (CNARC) Symposium will be held from 3 to 6 December 2023 in Guangzhou China. Registration is now open with the registration deadline 22 October 2023!
20 September 2023
The development of the Northern Sea Route – the perspective of indigenous people.
An article by: Sofia Urun, director of the Institute of the people of the North, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.
19 September 2023
After 30 years of successful cooperation, Russia has officially withdrawn from the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) a collaboration platform in the Arctic Region functioning in many ways similar to the Arctic Council. The Council activities have been on hold since spring 2022. In a formal statement sent to all the foreign ministers of the member countries of the BEAC on September 18, 2023, the Foreign Ministry of Russia declared Russia's official withdrawal from the council.
18 September 2023
The World Food Forum and the World Food Programme (WFP) have joined forces to combat food waste by launching the "50 Days to Fight Food Waste" challenge. This initiative takes the form of a game known as FREERICE, where participants answer questions to accumulate grains. The objective is to collect over 50 million rice grains within 50 days!
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