News & Press Releases
12 January 2017
Registration and abstract submission are now open for the Polar Prediction Workshop 2017 (PPW 2017) and the 2nd Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project Meeting (2nd SIMIP Meeting).
9 January 2017
The High North Center for Business and Governance and organizing partners are proud to announce a call for nominations for the 2017 High North Hero Award.
5 January 2017
A group of scientists from Arizona State University led by astrophysicist Steve Desch has published an article in the journal Sea Ice Management in which they propose a possible solution to the problem of reducing ice cover in the Arctic.
3 January 2017
International shipping rules in Polar waters, also known as the Polar Code, came into force on January 1st, 2017.
28 December 2016
The conference Earth's Cryosphere: Past, Present and Future will be held from the 4th to the 8th of June 2017 at the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
22 December 2016
Just before leaving office, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a permanent ban on offshore drilling in the US part of the Arctic Ocean as well as a few areas on the country's Atlantic coast. Environmentalists are ecstatic about the decision to ban drilling, while those who had hopes for President-Elect Donald Trump's pro-development agenda are disappointed.
20 December 2016
The University of Akureyri is accepting applications for the Nansen visiting professorship in Arctic studies or Nansen Research fellowship based on a cooperation between the governments of Iceland and Norway.
16 December 2016
New NORA funded project called Pro-Active Diving is aiming to develop a niche eco-tourism market in the NORA Region (Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands) in which divers can help scientists monitor the marine environment
13 December 2016
Editors Emma Vestrheim and Luis R. Antunes from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology are pleased to announce the preparation of a book to be entitled A Companion to Arctic Cinema (under contract with Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2018). The book is going to be a collection of original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the films made in the Arctic regions of the globe.
12 December 2016
According to the a new study published recently in the journal Nature, the planet could see 55 billion tons of carbon (which converts to 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide) released from warming soils by the year 2050.
5 December 2016
The capital of the EU received a visit from a wide range of Arctic stakeholders last week during the 7th annual Arctic Futures Symposium, which was held on November 30th at the Diamant Conference Centre in Brussels, Belgium.
2 December 2016
After billionaire tycoon Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States, experts and policy makers in the Arctic began speculating about the implications of his upcoming presidency for the Arctic, as Mr. Trump did not say very much about the Arctic during his campaign.
30 November 2016
Using data gained from observations, NASA scientists have created a variety of animations and visualisations - including the first 3-D model of the Greenland Ice Sheet - to better illustrate the changes happening in the Arctic.
24 November 2016
The organizing committee of the 4th biennial 2017 Arctic Energy Summit welcomes abstracts for technical presentations, workshops, or moderated panel discussions.
21 November 2016
The registration for “Yamal Oil and Gas”, the only international conference dedicated to the booming Yamal oil and gas industry, is available now. The conference will take place in Salekhard in Russia from 7 to 9 of June, 2017.
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