News & Press Releases

Arctic Portal News Portlet

12 November 2014

Arctic Yearbook 2014 - Human Capital in the North

The Arctic Yearbook was launched on October 31st 2014, during the Arctic Circle conference that took place in Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland.

11 November 2014

PAGE21

Tomorrow, the 12th of November 2014, the 3rd PAGE21 General Assembly will take place in Twente, The Netherlands at the conference hall of "Landgoedhotel De Wilmersberg".

5 November 2014

Northern Forum´s representatives gather in Akureyri.

Yesterday, the Northern Forum´s Regional Coordinators Committee Business Meeting took place.

27 October 2014

Beluga in the mouth of the Churchill River in the Hudson Bay, Canada

Last week environmentalists called on the eight Arctic nations of the Arctic Council to enact a ten-year moratorium on any increase in Arctic shipping to protect endangered beluga whales from the threat of growing ship traffic in their habitat.

24 October 2014

arctic sea ice

The Centre for Arctic Policy Studies at the University of Iceland (CAPS) is organizing a high-level seminar on Arctic issues, scheduled to take place in Reykjavik, Iceland on 29 October 2014.

17 October 2014

Arctic Circle

There are two weeks left before the opening reception of the second Assembly of the Arctic Circle, which will be held October 31 – November 2 in Reykjavík, Iceland. An updated version of the full program is now available here.

15 October 2014

iceberg in the arctic

The most recent research shows that the thaw of the Greenlandic ice cap is being slowed down by a subglacial plumbing system.

14 October 2014

Polar Bears in the arctic

The second international Polar Climate and Environmental Change in the Last Millennium will take place in Torun, Poland 24 – 26 of August 2015.

10 October 2014

seal in the arctic

Since the Stockholm Convention came into effect in 2004, banning persistent organic pollutants, the concentration of these pollutants has declined by up to 90%.

9 October 2014

Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.

Sweden is the first of the eight Arctic states and long members of European Union to officially recognize the state of Palestine.

8 October 2014

Arctic Futures Symposium 2014

The annual Arctic Futures Symposium will take place in Brussels, Belgium at the Residence Palace conference centre in European District of the city. The conference will take place on Tuesday 14th of October and Wednesday, 15th of October.

3 October 2014

APECS

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is APECS is excited to announce that another leadership term has begun on 1 October 2014!

2 October 2014

Iceberg in arctic waters

Arctic Portal will promote the participation of young researchers, students, PhD students, future generation of experts on the Arctic, into the debate on Arctic issues.

30 September 2014

University of Dundee

The School of Law, University of Dundee, UK and the K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø, Norway are pleased to announce the call for papers for "The European Union and the Arctic"(2015 EU-Arctic Conference).

25 September 2014

Energy Law conference

The two-days Energy Law Conference -The legal issues associated with the development and use of Arctic energy resources- just started this morning (25th September 2014) at the University of Tromsø, Faculty of Law (Norway).

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