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The 2012 Arctic Frontiers conference starts in Tromsø on the 22nd of January and runs until the 27th. The conference will be broadcast live online.
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Warmer climate, spurred by climate change, can cause colder winters. This is the result of a new study by Jodah Cohen, released this week.
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The WWF's Global Arctic Programme celebrates this year its 20th anniversary of the creation of a WWF body to champion conservation in the Arctic.
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A new time lapse vide footage shows the Columbia glacier in Alaska diminishing fast in only four years.
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Three polar bears were shot in Kulusuk, Greenland, yesterday. They drifted with sea ice to the town and were in search for food.
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There are high hopes for oil in the Dreki Area, south of Jan Mayen and North of Iceland.
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Very little sea ice is in the Barents region for this time of year. This indicates that this trend will continue and sailing will become easier every year.
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Greenlanders are counting on Denmark to raise the issue of the EU ban on importing seal products, due to a burgeoning seal population in the Arctic regions. Denmark has the presidency of the EU, which it took over in the beginning of 2012.
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Norway has found the cornerstone of its oil production for the next year. The Barents Region of Skrugard is thought to give Norway up to 900 million barrels of oil.
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Norway hopes to use the Northern Sea Route in a few months. Increased shipping saw 27 vessels using the route last year, a huge increase, indeed, in the Northern Sea route.
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Around 18.000 tons of scrap metal will be removed from the Arctic in 2012 by Russia. The country is cleaning up the Arctic and hundreds of millions of rubles will be injected to the program.
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No radioactive materials leaked from the nuclear submarine Yekaterinburg, which caught fire yesterday. The submarine was in a floating dock, which caught fire.