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The conference Earth's Cryosphere: Past, Present and Future will be held from the 4th to the 8th of June 2017 at the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
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Just before leaving office, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a permanent ban on offshore drilling in the US part of the Arctic Ocean as well as a few areas on the country's Atlantic coast. Environmentalists are ecstatic about the decision to ban drilling, while those who had hopes for President-Elect Donald Trump's pro-development agenda are disappointed.
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The University of Akureyri is accepting applications for the Nansen visiting professorship in Arctic studies or Nansen Research fellowship based on a cooperation between the governments of Iceland and Norway.
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New NORA funded project called Pro-Active Diving is aiming to develop a niche eco-tourism market in the NORA Region (Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands) in which divers can help scientists monitor the marine environment
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Editors Emma Vestrheim and Luis R. Antunes from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology are pleased to announce the preparation of a book to be entitled A Companion to Arctic Cinema (under contract with Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2018). The book is going to be a collection of original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the films made in the Arctic regions of the globe.
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According to the a new study published recently in the journal Nature, the planet could see 55 billion tons of carbon (which converts to 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide) released from warming soils by the year 2050.
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The capital of the EU received a visit from a wide range of Arctic stakeholders last week during the 7th annual Arctic Futures Symposium, which was held on November 30th at the Diamant Conference Centre in Brussels, Belgium.
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After billionaire tycoon Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States, experts and policy makers in the Arctic began speculating about the implications of his upcoming presidency for the Arctic, as Mr. Trump didnot say very much about the Arctic during his campaign.
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Using data gained from observations, NASA scientists have created a variety of animations and visualisations - including the first 3-D model of the Greenland Ice Sheet - to better illustrate the changes happening in the Arctic.
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The organizing committee of the 4th biennial 2017 Arctic Energy Summit welcomes abstracts for technical presentations, workshops, or moderated panel discussions.
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The registration for “Yamal Oil and Gas”, the only international conference dedicated to the booming Yamal oil and gas industry, is available now. The conference will take place in Salekhard in Russia from 7 to 9 of June, 2017.
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An article published in the December 2016 edition of the Journal of Environmental Science and Studies focuses on the key role science diplomacy can play in a changing Arctic, in light of the current geopolitical situation.