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Arctic Portal News Portlet

10 September 2013

Arctic Circle

We are pleased to announce further collaboration between the Arctic Energy Summit and the Arctic Circle. Anyone that is registered for the 2013 Arctic Energy Summit will also be able to attend the inaugural Arctic Circle that will be held 12-14 October in Reykjavik, Iceland FREE OF CHARGE.

6 September 2013

arctic landscape

Cairn Energy, one of Europe´s leading independent oil and gas exploration and development companies, has revealed their long term plans for exploration drilling programme, which may involve in resuming activity off Greenland.

5 September 2013

Autumn in Akureyri

The Arctic is sometimes described as the last frontier in the development of energy resources.

The Institute of the North's Arctic Energy Summit will explore energy as a fundamental element of the sustainable development of the Arctic as a lasting frontier.

27 August 2013

research site

A Post-doctoral position on high-latitude land surface modelling within the Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM) and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research is open for applications. The deadline is the 3rd of September.

22 August 2013

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at the NRF Open Assembly

The NRF Open Assembly started in Akureyri this morning. Its theme is: Climate Change in Northern Territories, Sharing Experiences, Exploring New Methods and Assessing Socio-Economic Impacts.

Click here to see the conference program.

15 August 2013

Xue Long - The Snow Dragon

Arctic shipping is reaching its peak this year, now in late summer. Earlier a 19.000 ton cargo vessel from China became the first Chinese merchant ship to travel from its homeland to Europe via the Northern sea route.

12 August 2013

arctic landscape

The Arctic lost record amounts of sea ice last year and is changing at an unprecedented pace due to climate change, a landmark climate study says.

9 August 2013

Polar bear dead of starvation

A starved polar bear found found dead in Svalbard as "little more than skin and bones" perished due to a lack of sea ice on which to hunt seals, according to a renowned polar bear expert.

7 August 2013

Arctic ice

Worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record according to the 2012 State of the Climate report released online today by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The peer-reviewed report, with scientists from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., serving as lead editors, was compiled by 384 scientists from 52 countries.

6 August 2013

5th Polar Shipping Summit

The Arctic Polar Shipping Summit will take place 26th -27th of February 2014 in London.

The ACI's 5th Polar Shipping Summit will help its participants to prepare their ship and crew for another successful year of polar navigation.

31 July 2013

Ice covered waters in the Arctic

Five maritime engineering bachelor students of the Delft University of Technology produced a design for an Arctic modular towing supply vessel (AMTSV) as part of their minor on Arctic Engineering. In cooperation with Dutch shipyard Damen this has now culminated in an offering of a 100m double acting supply ship is capable of operating in the Barents Sea year round and in the Baffin Bay and Beaufort Sea for 8 months.

30 July 2013

Sea ice is largely present in Greenland

Various actors to include both Arctic and non – Arctic states, have now recognized Greenland´s increasing presence in the rare earth field, according to economy analysts.

29 July 2013

Summer in Southern Iceland

We are excited to remind the agenda for the 2013 Arctic Energy Summit! It is filled with speakers who are leaders in the industry, academic, government and non-profit sectors around the world.

25 July 2013

Midnight sun in the Arctic

The International Laboratory for the Multidisciplinary Comparative Study of Representations of the North, of the Université du Québec à Montréal, announces a call for papers for its 8th international conference, «Cold: Adaptation, Representations, Production, Effects», co-organized with the "Cultures, environments, Arctic, representations, climate" research centre of the Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin (France), as part of a France-Québec cooperation project.

24 July 2013

Southern Iceland

NORDNET 2013, Cool Projects and Arctic Opportunities, the unique project managment event will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland, 3 – 5th September 2013.

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