- Details
Last autumn 50 international polar experts gathered in La Cristalera, a town in the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. Over the course of five days, their task was to draft a set of polar white papers.
- Details
The International Economic Forum will be held in St. Petersburg on 6-8 June 2019. The business programme of the forum will include a panel discussion on modern approaches to managing the World Ocean and the contribution of shipbuilders to its conservation and study.
- Details
The astronomy picture of the day on February 18 at NASA's website was of an amazing aurora borealis taken in Iceland by the photographers Jingyi Zhang and Wang Zheng.
- Details
Even though Greta Thunberg is only 15 years old she has become well known for her fight against climate change. She was born on 3 January 2003 in Sweden and became deeply interested in the environment at an early age or around eight years old.
- Details
Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network released its newsletter today. Among very interesting articles is one from the news provider Eye on the Arctic were the PM of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir expresses disappointment with the US withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement to the US Secretary of State mr. Michael Pompeo. Mr Pompeo visited Iceland on 15 February to have discussion both with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson.
- Details
US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo visited Iceland on February 15th. He met with the Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and the Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson to discuss security issues in the North Atlantic and Iceland´s upcoming chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
- Details
Alaska's new Governor Mike Dunleavy announced big budget cuts on February 13th that is bound to have great impact on Arctic Alaska and will deeply affect the educational institutions and inhabitants of the state.
- Details
The authorities have declared a state of an emergency in Belushya Guba in northern Russia's Novaya Zemlya islands because of dozens of polar bears invading the settlement.
- Details
The catalogue includes detailed information on European research facilities (stations, camps, laboratories, shelters, vessels and aircrafts) in the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Details
On the 11th of February the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications published a “Final report of the Joint Working Group Between Finland and Norway on the Arctic Railway” that studied the future progress and schedule of the Arctic railway project. The routing that was selected for further study was the Rovaniemi-Kirkenes route.
- Details
The United Nations have proclaimed 11 February the International Day of Women and Girls in Science aiming to inspire and engage women and girls in science and STEM education. It is still the case, unfortunately, that women and girls are excluded from participating fully in science.
- Details
Arice publishes its first newsletter
Among important things in the newsletter are that over 250 applications were submitted for the MOSAiC School, call for shiptime will open soon and a webinar on “Pre-cruise Preparation and Risk Reduction” is to be held on February 19. The full newsletter can be read here.