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A new website was launched today, PAGE21.eu. The EU funded project brings leading scientists together studying permafrost.
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The Northern Sea Route was busier then ever this year. In total, 34 vessels used the route, a significant increase from only 4 in 2010.
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1. December is the Antarctica Day, a young tradition only first celebrated last year. It celebrates the signature of the Antarctic Treaty on 1 December 1959 and the worldwide significance of this landmark.
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"No, congratulations to you!" one of the crew in new Icelandic guard ship Þór (named after the God of Thunder) told me as I walked aboard to have a look around. "This belongs to all Icelanders, and they should all be proud if it," he said and smiled.
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Lack of ice is hindering hunting in Greenland. Humans are not the only one who rely on hunting in, the dogs in Qaanaaq are starving.
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The Ministry Transport in Russia has introduced a new bill regarding "state regulation of merchant shipping in the waters of the Northern Sea Route. The website of the Ministry reads that Minister of Transport, Sergey Aristov, introduced the bill in Duma.
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New research strengthens the belief that there is oil in the seabed around Jan Mayen.
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The Abisko Scientific Research Station introduces a PhD training course on multidisciplinary issues related snow and climate change effects on it. "Snowtalks" will be held on the 19th of March til the 23rd of 2012.
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High gold prices have led to extensive search for the material. In northern Norway a new gold discovery could become very valuable, but the expedition not only found gold.
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The Northern Sea Route shipping season is now over. To much ice in the Arctic ocean hinders any more shipping.
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Arctic Portal is proud to introduce its latest project, about biodiversity in Arctic waters. In cooperation with the Fisheries Science Center of the University of Akureyri, Vistey has opened.
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Science Nordic is a newly opened independent website for science news in english from the Nordic countries. The web site is a welcomed forum for Arctic research available in English.