News & Press Releases
21 December 2011
A huge project in Norway enters its final year in January. The NORKLIMA project, The Research Council of Norway's 10-year Large-scale programme on Climate Change and its Impacts in Norway, is entering its final stages.
19 December 2011
An oil rig sunk yesterday in the Sea of Okhotsk where 14 people lost their lives. Many are still missing but 67 were on the rig.
16 December 2011
A Russian fishing boat is trapped in heavy sea ice near Antarctica and its crew has moved to lifeboats. The ship is in danger of cracking and sinking so the crew evacuated the ship. It has reported a hole in its hull beneath the water line.
16 December 2011
Russia's revised submission for their claim of the Arctic shelf boarders is almost complete. Russia was rejected earlier this year after submitting a claim for expanding its shelf borders to the UN commission, because of lack of information.
16 December 2011
Around 100 Beluga whales are trapped in sea ice in the Bering Sea. They await rescue or face death.
15 December 2011
Russian scientists are baffled after finding plumes of methane in the Arctic Ocean. The scale and volume of the methane was a huge surprise to the researchers.
15 December 2011
Doctoral and post-doctoral researcher anywhere in the world (under 35 years old) are invited to propose research project to the InBev-Baillet Latour Fund, which will we granting 150.000 Euros to the projects.
14 December 2011
As reported here on Arctic Portal today is 100 years since Roald Amundsen step foot on the South Pole, the first person to do so.
14 December 2011
Today marks the 100 year anniversary of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen being the first person to reach the South Pole. Celebrations in Antarctica will last over a month.
13 December 2011
Canada has announced it will withdraw from the Kyoto protocol. Peter Kent, minister of the environment, confirmed this last night.
13 December 2011
Pictures of a polar bear dragging its own cub after killing it has shook many. The telling pictures by nature photographer Jenny Ross were published yesterday.
12 December 2011
"Today, we saved tomorrow," the chair of the UN Climate talks in South Africa stated, after lengthy negotiations led to a new climate agreement.
12 December 2011
Greenland is rising from the sea. A new study released on Friday shows a startling revelation to scientists who study global warming.
12 December 2011
Iceland showed last week why it is indeed ice-land. This amazing photograph taken by a NASA satellite is from the Earth Science department of the University of Iceland.
9 December 2011
Danish researchers believe they have a breakthrough in tidal power, using the waves of the ocean to generate energy.
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