News & Press Releases
8 October 2015
The Nordic ruralities conference is an interdisciplinary forum for rural research with a particular emphasis on the Nordic countries.
7 October 2015
Green Growth was named a primary focus area by the Nordic Prime Ministers in November 2011. Since then, the Nordic Council of Ministers has granted a total of DKK 66 million to a wide range of initiatives focusing on green growth.
6 October 2015
Today, the BarentsObserver has reported that Russia will establish a new media resource aimed at promoting Russian national interest in the Arctic, as part of the state-owned TASS (the piece of news was reported firstly by TASS, available only in Russian).
29 September 2015
Today, The Gordon Foundation released the full report of "Rethinking the Top of the World: Arctic Public Opinion Survey, Vol. 2" at the Arctic Energy Summit in Fairbanks, Alaska.
28 September 2015
Today, Monday September 28th, the Arctic Energy Summit starts in Fairbanks, Alaska. The event is broadcasted live here.
25 September 2015
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
24 September 2015
The Annual International Forum "Arctic: Today And The Future" takes place in December in St. Petersburg.
22 September 2015
Today, typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) calling for an investigation into the responsibility of big fossil fuel companies for fuelling catastrophic climate change that is resulting in human rights violations" Greenpeace Philippines reported this morning.
21 September 2015
Circum-Arctic Gallery, a Canadian-Icelandic based company, is hosting the first International Arctic Art Show in Reykjavik from the 15th to19th of October 2015 and aims to promote the work of indigenous artists from across the Arctic Circle, providing a platform to show case their work and reach a wider audience.
18 September 2015
The latest edition of the "Arctic Herald" journal is now available online. The information and analytical journal, published by the Russian Geographical Society, was first released in 2012 and "conceived as the platform for communication amonf the expert community, as well as all those engaged and interested in the problems of today's Arctic", as stated by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, for the first number of the journal.
17 September 2015
MastersInDataScience.org is a new online resource that features a comprehensive directory of Master's degree programs in data science (and interdisciplinary programs in related specialties) as well as entertaining and history-rich discussions of the uses of data science in various industries.
16 September 2015
At its first session since the 1 September election, the Faroese Parliament today appointed Aksel V. Johannesen, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, as the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
15 September 2015
This Saturday at a conference in Quebec, Canada an international research team will present the first online data portal on global permafrost.
11 September 2015
On the beginning of September, the five polar bear range states – Canada, Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States – have met in Ilulissat (GL) and committed themselves to a 10-year plan that aims to secure the long-term survival of polar bears in the wild.
10 September 2015
On Tuesday 8th September, the Arctic Economic Council (AEC) Secretariat was officially opened in Tromsø by the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende. The news has been released on the social media, both by the Norwegian MFA (via Twitter) and both by the Arctic Council (via Facebook), and by the Barents Observer.
Arctic Portal.org - 2024 © All rights reserved.
When quoting, reusing or copying any material on the arcticportal.org or any of its sub-sites including but not limiting to: information, news, articles, data, maps or images, in part or in full, a citation stating the origin and a hyperlink to www.arcticportal.org is required.