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The Nordic countries and NordForsk are investing a total of NOK 112 million in four new, interdisciplinary Nordic Centres of Excellence.
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COPENHAGEN, 16 December 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) has appointed Norwegian parliamentarian Ola Elvestuen as the PA’s first Special Representative for Arctic Issues.
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IASC has now a new website, designed by Arctic Portal in partnership with IASC, and hosted by Arctic Portal.
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The European Polar Lows Working Group (EPLWG) focuses on polar mesocyclonesin both hemispheres, but contributions to other mesoscale weather phenomena suchas katabatic winds, tip jets, boundary layer fronts, cold air outbreaks, and weatherextremes in polar regions are also welcome. This includes experimental,climatological, theoretical, modelling, and remote sensing studies.
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Hilcorp Alaska, LLC has filed a Development and Production Plan with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for the Liberty Project. Filing of the plan is the first of many steps in the permitting process, which entails multiple approvals at the local, state and federal levels and is expected to take more than two years. A final analysis and decision to proceed with the project will be made after all the necessary permits have been issued.
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The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) engages Northerners and scientists to research and monitor long-range contaminants in the Canadian Arctic. Long-range contaminants are transported to the Arctic through atmospheric and oceanic processes from other parts of the world. They remain in the Arctic environment and build up in the food chain. The call for proposals is announced in November of each year with results announced in late spring/early summer. The program funds about $4.1 million in research annually.
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The US Department of Interior published yesterday the story ofEsau Sinnok, Arctic Youth Ambassador, who lives Shishmaref, Alaska (population: 650). Shishmaref is avillage that "is so remote that it is only accessible by airplane, and we only get fresh food products from other parts of Alaska every one to two months. If we can’t hunt and fish to feed ourselves in the winter, we will starve", Esau writes.
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The Arctic Encounter will host its first international event - Arctic Encounter Paris - at the French Military College (École Militaire), the French Military Library and Campus Eiffel in Paris, France, on December 10-11-12, 2015.
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Russia wants China to participate in constructing railways to transport cargo to ports on the Arctic or Northern Sea Route, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.
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Paris, 4 December 2015 - The Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced that it will launch an investigation on December 10 (International Human rights Day), which could hold fossil fuel companies responsible for the impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events. This will be the world's first national human rights investigation into big polluters.
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The Arctic Coastal Dynamics has a new website, designed and hosted by the Arctic Portal team.
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The Arctic Cooperation Programme of the Nordic Council of Ministers has opened up its call for project applications for financial support in 2016 to new project proposals as well as for the continuation of existing projects.