News & Press Releases
9 September 2015
ARCTIC OCEAN — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, homeported in Seattle, arrived at the North Pole Sept. 5, 2015, becoming the first U.S. surface ship to do so unaccompanied. This is also only the fourth time a U.S. surface vessel has ever reached the North Pole, and the first since 2005.
8 September 2015
This weekend in Paris, the United States and Switzerland hosted senior officials from 18 developed countries to discuss our collaborative efforts to scale up climate finance for developing nations, and to provide increased transparency on our progress.
7 September 2015
The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Summit, a major event in the further planning of the Year of Polar Prediction, was held from 13–15 July 2015 at WMO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
4 September 2015
Toronto, Sept. 3, 2015 – The first ever circumpolar action plan to protect polar bears was released yesterday during the Polar Bear Range States meeting in Ilulissat, Greenland.
3 September 2015
A new journal is emerging to be published shortly. The Icelandic Arctic Journal is a non-peer reviewed, interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral platform for those interested and involved in the Arctic.
2 September 2015
The Arctic Energy Summit 2015 will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 28-30. Registration is open. The Arctic Energy Summit 2015 is hosted by the Institute of the North in cooperation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Iceland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1 September 2015
Last Sunday, August 30th, the Icelandic cargo ship Winter Bay (but flying the flag of St. Kitts and Nevis), arrived in Osaka with about 1,800 tons of fin whale meat.
31 August 2015
The editors of the "Witness the Arctic" publication invite suggestions for articles on Arctic sciences and related topics for the Fall 2015 issue, which will be published in late October.
28 August 2015
On August 21st, the construction of the Norwegian Polarled gas pipeline, which will bring gas from the Norwegian sea to Europe, crossed the Arctic Circle. As Statoil reports, "the 482-kilometre long and 36-inch (91.4 cm) wide pipeline will run from Nyhamna in western Norway to the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea.
27 August 2015
The "Eye on Earth Summit 2015 Informed Decision-Makin for Sustainable Development" will be held in Abu Dhabi next 6-8 October 2015.
26 August 2015
Organizers of the Polar Data Forum II: International Collaboration for Advancing Polar Data Access and Preservation announce a call for early bird registration. The forum will convene 27-29 October 2015 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
26 August 2015
The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) seeks applicants for the position of Executive/Program Assistant. This is a full-time, hourly position based in Fairbanks, Alaska.
25 August 2015
Yesterday, August 24th, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague ruled in favor of the 30 Greenpeace activists that in the in the morning of 18 September 2013 used the vessel Arctic Sunrise to stage a protest action at the Russian offshore oil production platform Prirazlomnaya, located in the Barents Sea in Russia's EEZ.
24 August 2015
The "September Sea Ice Outlook: August Report" has just been released by ARCUS.
21 August 2015
The executive council of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) held it's Executive Council Meeting in Bethel, Alaska on 18-19 August 2015.
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