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Governments of eight Arctic states agreed on closer cooperation with regards to search and rescue operations on the Arctic waters.
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Statoil awarded Aker Solutions a contract today for hiring of an entirely new type of rig which represents an important technological advance for the industry. The category B rig will be an important contribution towards increasing recovery from existing fields.
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The Russian government announced that the emergency and rescue centers are to be open along the Northern Sea Route.
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French scientists report that glaciers in the Karakoram Mountain Range in Asia are growing, not shrinking as previously suspected.
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Iceland is excited as the first hints of oil discovery have been confirmed in the Dreki area, north of Iceland. One aspect for local communities is the service for the station.
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Norway and Russia are strengthening their cooperation in the Arctic. The two states already have an extensive cooperation, but are strengthening with military relations and multi-branch exercises with common strategic and environment-based programs.
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Three offers were submitted for search of oil in the Dreki Area. Icelanders are part of them all.
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A Russian icebreaker will be modified into a floating museum. The icebreaker Lenin will serve the purpose of being a science and historical exhibition.
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The temperatures in Svalbard this year have been abnormal. The average temperature in the first three months of the year is around -13°.
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Over 600 anglers, fisherman who were angling through the ice, have been rescued after an ice sheet broke off. The Russians were not harmed.
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NASA has sent an Earth Resources (ER-2) high-altitude science aircraft to Iceland to study the Greenlandic ice-sheet.
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The University of Akureyri hosted a Law Forum today, open for the public. Eric Green, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S Embassy in Reykjavik and Gregory P. Sims, Regional Political Officer at the U.S Embassy in Oslo, discussed the U.S foreign policy with regards to Iceland and the Arctic region.