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Arctic Portal News Portlet

16 April 2019

Northern Forum Governors

The II Northern Forum Governors’ Meeting (the II Meeting) was held on April 10th, and was recognized as the one of key events of the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum.
The II Meeting was moderated by Alexander Tsybulskiy, Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

12 April 2019

Arctic Sailing Routes

According to the newsprovider High North News a compromise made in 1988 between USA and Canada about who holds the rights to the Northwest Passage seems to be cracking.

11 April 2019

International Arctic Forum Plenary Session

The ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum 2019 brought together more than 3,600 representatives of Russian and international political, scientific and business circles, the public and leading mass media. This is one and a half times more than during the last Forum in 2017.

10 April 2019

Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change 1971 to 2017

An interesting article by Sue Mitchell called Air temperatures in the Arctic are driving system change was published in the newsprovider phys.org recently stating that air temperature is the "smoking gun" behind climate change in the Arctic.

10 April 2019

International Arctic Forum Russia China cooperation

Agree on developing a common roadmap for implementing joint investment projects in such areas as cross-border transport infrastructure and deep processing of primary resources in the Russian Federation, including through the use of the mechanisms of special economic territories and tourism infrastructure.

9 April 2019

International Arctic Forum Plenary Session

This morning a live broadcasting was send out from the International Arctic Forum of the plenary session “The Arctic An Ocean of Opportunity”. The Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of Iceland Guðni Jóhannesson, President of Finland Sauli Niinistö, Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg and Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven were on the panel.

9 April 2019

Wilson Center

The Wilson Center´s Polar Institute has a new program series about the international and local implications of this new Arctic to an Alaskan audience who are mostly directly affected. The series The Arctic and U.S. National Security has already began or started on Monday, April 8 but will continue through Friday, April 12 on GCI Channel 907, starting at 8. pm each day.

8 April 2019

Vladimir Putin

The President of Russia, Vladiminir Putin said that“Russia is striving unfailingly to consolidate collaboration with the states of the Arctic region.

5 April 2019

Dinosaurs

According to Smithsonian.com a new type of Arctic Dinosaur (the duck-billed, crested lambeosaurine) discovered in Alaska, ”shows that a diverse array of dinos lived in the warmer but still harsh Arctic 70 milliion years ago”.

3 April 2019

Chukchi Sea Ice coverage

At his time of the year the Arctic sea ice usually reaches its greatest size freezing over the northern ocean. Recent satellite photos show that unfortunately that is not the case today compared to past years.

2 April 2019

Vladimir Putin

The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue 5th International Artic Forum will be held in St. Petersburg on April 9-10.

1 April 2019

International Arctic Forum Russia

The Russian newsagency PenzaNews has published an article with interviews with leading Arctic experts, Anton Kobyakov (adviser to the president of Russia), Nikolai Korchunov (ambassador-at-large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Hannele Pokka (Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of the Environment of Finland), David Balton (Former Chair of Arctic Council), Alexander Kirilov (Director of Russian National Arctic Parks) and Halldór Jóhannsson (Director of Arctic Portal) on the Arctic and its developments “IAF in St. Petersburg to outline new ways of multi-vector cooperation in Arctic“.

29 March 2019

The Glacier Jakobshavn in Greenland

A recent discovery made by the scientists at NASA about Greenland´s fastest-flowing and fastest-thinning glacier actually growing thicker took the scientists by surprise. This is reported in an article written by Laura Gegget published on LiveScience.com based on a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

28 March 2019

Archaeologist in Iceland

An interesting disvovery was revealed after an archaelogical excavation in the eastern part of Iceland. According to the Icelandic newsprovider RUV “ An archaeologist believes that people of Sami origin may have been among a group that sailed to Iceland before the first known settlers to take natural resources from Stöð in Stöðvafjörður.

28 March 2019

Arctic Forum 2019

A press release from the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum to be held in St. Petersburg 9-10 April states that the development of the Arctic’s transport infrastructure will be one of the main themes of the Forum.

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