News & Press Releases
27 January 2015
The conference "Barents region and beyond: Internationalizing Higher Education" will be held on 2nd and 3rd June 2015 at University of Nordland, Bodø, Norway.
26 January 2015
We publish here the call by NORA to fund project idea focused on the use of ICT in the sparsely populated regions of the North Atlantic and the Arctic.
22 January 2015
Today the Arctic Council has published online a interview with the recently appointed SAO for Finland, Aleksi Härkönen.
21 January 2015
The eight Polar Law Symposium will be held in Alaska, September 23-26, 2015. The call for abstract invites participants to consider how polar science and scholarship can combine with the practice of law, broadly understood, to strengthen Arctic Peoples and Places. How can lawyers andlegal scholars interact with scientists and academics from other disciplines to the benefit of the Arctic? Can models of cooperation between scientists, scholars and lawyers from other geographic areas be adapted for the Arctic? What can lawyers and academics from all disciplines contribute to each other's understanding on issues of common concern?
20 January 2015
Advances in Polar Science together with the Arctic Portal invites you to submit manuscripts to a special issue on "Current Research on Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases over the Polar Regions(AATGPR)", to be published by the end of 2015.
19 January 2015
Few days ago, the government of Greenland has released the following piece of news regarding exclusive licenses for exploration for and exploitation of hydrocarbons to be awarded in Jameson Land, East Greenland:
16 January 2015
Here we report the call released by Norden to apply for funding for a "Nordic Centre of excellence".
15 January 2015
Oil prices have drop down a 25% worldwide since June 2014. From roughly $100 a barrel in June 2014, today's price according to Nasdaq is about $ 47,37 a barrel (data from Nasdaq), and, experts say, prices are staying low for now.
14 January 2015
This year Economist Events' Arctic Summit will be held in Oslo on March 12. The summit will address whether commercial interest in the Arctic is a bubble about to burst.
12 January 2015
The annual Arctic Business Forum in the heart of Lapland Finland introduces the latest business development and the future prospects of the European High North economy. Arctic Business Forum is a discussion arena and a business-to-business meeting point valuing sustainable growth in the arctic.
9 January 2015
As recently reported by TASS, a Russian news agency, "Russia may develop the Northern Sea Route jointly with Asian countries, which are interested in the shortest route for supplies from Asia to Northern Europe", as stated by the Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev.
8 January 2015
The 9th Arctic Frontiers conference will be held in Tromsø, Norway, with the title: Climate and Energy, from Sunday 18 January to Friday 23 January 2015.
7 January 2015
2014 has been a very warm year in the Arctic. According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), for instance, 2014 has been the second warmest year ever recorded in Finland after 1938 (when it was just 0.15 degrees Celsius warmer): temperatures were 1,6 C higher than long term average (1981- 2010).
6 January 2015
The audit investigation that caused the resignation of the first female Greenlandic Prime Minister, Aleqa Hammond (Siumut party), was eventually published by the Inatsisartut (Parliament of Greenland) audit committee on December, 30th 2014. In addition to Mrs. Hammond, the audit investigation has shown that other 6 members of the Greenlandic Parliament (Ane Hansen, Anthon Frederiksen, Mimi Karlsen, Ove Karl Berthelsen and Steen Lynge) have misused public funds for private expenses during their offices, from 2009 to 2014 (read the report here).
Arctic Portal.org - 2024 © All rights reserved.
When quoting, reusing or copying any material on the arcticportal.org or any of its sub-sites including but not limiting to: information, news, articles, data, maps or images, in part or in full, a citation stating the origin and a hyperlink to www.arcticportal.org is required.