News & Press Releases
3 July 2012
The European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy have today outlined the way forward for the EU's constructive engagement in the Arctic.
3 July 2012
A proposal to declare a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been declined at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting.
2 July 2012
Greenland seeks more quotas for whale hunting in the next five-yearly quotas. An agreement with the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be discussed soon.
29 June 2012
Norway is taking deep sea drilling a step further. The country is ready to take its drills as close to the North Pole as it possibly can, near the 84th latitude.
27 June 2012
The PAGE21 permafrost project has set up an interesting feature on its website. It is a live blog from research fields in the Arctic.
25 June 2012
Computer giant Google has launched a project to preserve over 3000 dying languages. The Endangered Languages Project is backed by a coalition of international scholars and linguists.
22 June 2012
Environmental activists Greenpeace have launched a campaign aimed to "save the Arctic. "Greenpeace is campaigning for the United Nations to declare the Arctic ocean a sanctuary, much like the Antarctic.
20 June 2012
Debates on a new agreement in the Rio+20 conference continue. Negotiators have agreed a text to be approved this week "to put society on a more sustainable path".
18 June 2012
The University of Akureyri has advertised a new guest professor position according a memorandum of understanding signed last year.
15 June 2012
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio 2012 or Rio+20, will start next week.
14 June 2012
Iceland supports China in its effort to become a permanent observer in the Arctic Council. Norway opposes.
13 June 2012
The Faroe Islands are certainly small, but their force is growing. They have big ideas for the future, contrasting the few number of 50.000 inhabitants, both regarding oil and shipping.
12 June 2012
Arctic Portal has been formally accepted as a member of the University of the Arctic. This was confirmed today at the 15th UArctic Council meeting in Tromsö, Norway.
11 June 2012
Great melt will occur this year in Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajökull in Iceland. This is the result of an expedition by Icelandic scientist recently.
7 June 2012
The Arctic sea ice melting season is in full force and the ice edge in May was below average. The ice edge reached near average in late April but the melt happened rapidly in May.
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