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The APPLICATE General Assembly 2019 was held in Reading (UK) 28 - 30 January, hosted by ECMWF. Now Early Career Event will be held 31. January - 1. February.

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Permafrost is thawing all over the world, and it likely contains moregreenhouses gases than previously estimated. It also threatens to destabilize infrastructure — homes, buildings, roads, pipelines, and more — for the millions who live in the Arctic.

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The Organizing Committee of the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum decided to relocate the Forum, which is to be held on 9–10 April 2019, from Arkhangelsk to the ExpoForum Exhibition and Convention Centre in St. Petersburg.

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Today an article on permafrost was published in the Nature Magazine. The article is on permafrost warming and describes the use of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTNP) for which the staff of the Arctic Portal was technically responsible for creating and hosts.

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Yury Trutnev, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum, held a working visit to Arkhangelsk on 12 December 2018.
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Recently published report from the AREA Singapore Workshop is now available. The Arctic Renewable Energy Atlas (AREA) Project workshop was held 29–31 August 2018, hosted by the Energy Studies Institute (ESI) and National University of Singapore.

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The 7th Arctic Policy Forum, titled “The Arctic and Innovation”, took place on Tuesday, 11 December in BEXCO, Busan, hosted by the Korea Maritime Institute (Director Yang Chang-ho), the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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On December 10-14, the Arctic Partnership Week 2018 is being held in Busan, Korea. The Arctic Partnership Week is focused on Arctic policy, science, technology, shipping, energy and resources with international participation.

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COP24 is now in Katowice, Poland from 2-14 December 2018. COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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There is a new contribution to the Polar Prediction Matters dialogue platform hosted by the Helmholtz Association. In this new article, Tanja Joona who is senior researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, provides a personal report on the everyday life in Finnish Lapland (see also here).

