News & Press Releases
8 December 2021
On 10-11 December 2021 Moscow will host the Taste of the Arctic International Gastronomic Festival of northern cuisine within the frames of Russia’s Chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
6 December 2021
The National Weather Services of Denmark, Iceland, Ireland and The Netherlands are joining forces to jointly operate a new supercomputer and to bring significant advancements to short-term weather forecasting services.
3 December 2021
Salekhard, 2 December 2021. The first Senior Arctic Officials’ (SAO) plenary meeting during the Russian Chairmanship has just concluded in Salekhard and on screens across Arctic States and Observer countries.
3 December 2021
Due to unprecedented circumstances of COVID-19, the Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries is going to have a live-streaming conference this year, and all the sessions will be streamed live on YouTube.
1 December 2021
Experts and officials from Russia and other Arctic countries will gather in Moscow on 2–3 December 2021 for a seminar on developing light aviation in the Arctic. The event aims to improve the route network in the Arctic region, develop air transport, develop Arctic tourism, introduce the use of unmanned aircraft, and coordinate search and rescue between Arctic countries.
24 November 2021
A meeting of senior officials for coordinating scientific research in the Arctic took place in Moscow. The meeting was held as part of the plan of major events associated with the Russian Chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2021-2023, which is being operated by the Roscongress Foundation.
23 November 2021
The Arctic Yearbook 2021, is now available on the Arctic Portal or at www.arcticyearbook.com.
The publication of the Arctic Yearbook is lead by the excellent team of editors, Lassi Heininen, Justin Barnes & Heather Exner-Pirot, with the support of the AY editorial board, technically and graphically supported and hosted by the ArcticPortal.org with exceptional contribution from its qualified team members Aevar and Fanney - https://arcticyearbook.com/about.
19 November 2021
The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces a call for nominations for our Board of Directors election. There are four seats up for election in a vote of the ARCUS Membership Council that will take place in December. Terms will be three years and begin in January 2022.
18 November 2021
Halldór Jóhannsson, the general director of Arctic Portal was in a panel interview on China Global Television Network (CGTN) Friday November 12 talking about the COP26. In the interview, he mentioned the importance of activating and educating young people on climate and environmental issues, how to reach out to policymakers, and the conversion of knowledge from science to policy as per the Arctic Risk Platform by the Arctic Basecamp which the Arctic Portal team is a partner in.
16 November 2021
COP26 Declaration
We, the Clydebank Declaration signatories:
Recall the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
6 November 2021
Young and old are lining up by the thousands in Glasgow at the COP26 despite rain and drizzel getting ready to marge together to urge world leaders to transfer talks to real Climate Change preventing actions!
5 November 2021
The Arctic Risk platform developed by the Arctic Basecamp was launched today at the COP26. Arctic Basecamp is a team of Arctic experts and scientists who bring a message of Arctic risk to encourage bold climate action.
3 November 2021
During the European Polar Board’s Autumn 2021 Plenary Meeting, held 27-29th October, Nicole Biebow, Member Representative for the Helmholtz Association, Germany, was elected as the new EPB Chair. Nicole will serve as Chair for an initial term until Autumn 2023, having previously completed two full terms as a member of the Executive Committee since Autumn 2017.
2 November 2021
A photograph of a person licking the earth in the shape of an ice cream taken by an eighteen-year-old Icelandic girl, Íris Lilja Jóhannsdóttir, has won the youth prize in the European Environment Agency's competition Young Reporters for the Environment and the youth prize in the Climate Change PIX competition.
2 November 2021
The team of Arctic experts and scientists from the Arctic Basecamp emphasize that "What happens in the Arctic doesn´t stay in the Arctic". At the COP26 in Glasgow, they are delivering a strong message to the Global leaders and all other stakeholders!
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