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Two days ago, TASS, the specialized Russian news agency, has confirmed Russia's decision to develop the Northern Sea Route up to twenty times its current capacity within the next 15 years.
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Early in the morning, a number of pilot whales was killed on the island of Vágar in the northwest of the Faroe Islands archipelago. Contrary to the common belief, this annual event taking place in Faroes, is not a festival nor a ritual. Indeed, pilot whales are taken any time of the year (but the majority between July and September), to provide food for the local population: the catches are not commercialized (although whale meat and blubber are occasionally available in the local supermarkets) but rather shared for free among the participants and local community.
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The international Congress on Circumpolar Health starts today in Oulu, until the 12th of June 2015.
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The European Environment Agency (EEA) is organising an open competition with a view to recruiting a contract agent to work as Project Manager within the area of integrated marine state of the environment and further with a view to establishing a reserve list.
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The conference "Arctic Marine Resource Governance" is part of the project: Marine Resource Governance in the Arctic, financially supported by Nordic Council of Ministers' Arctic Co-operation Programme, the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Carlsberg Foundation.
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Yesterday, June 2nd, the US Embassy, the Canadian Embassy and the University of Akureyri jointly arranged the "Arctic Roundtable: Passing the Torch and Looking Ahead".
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Norden has recently released a new concise policy brief on "The Nordic Self-Governing Areas in a Peace Perspective : The Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Åland Islands", which summarizes the main findings of a broader study, published in Swedish with the support of the Northern Council, and available here.
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A 50% position for a research associate at postdoctoral level is available in the coordination office of theSwiss Permafrost Monitoring Network PERMOS at the Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Institute of Physicoсhemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Scientific Council on Earth Cryology and Institute of Earth Cryosphere of Russian Academy of Sciences would like to invite you to take part in the International conference "Permafrost in XXI century: basic and applied researches".
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PRESS RELEASE BY NSF
The Arctic Section in the Division of Polar Programs, Geosciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces staffing changes for the Arctic Observing Network program.
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An international panel of experts will come together at the University of Dundee this week to explore how European Union countries can prevent the Arctic from environmental catastrophe.
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Different news sources have recently reported that the Russian company MMC Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium (read more about MMC Norilsk Nickel here) has planned to sell the Arkhangelsk sea trade port by the end of 2015.