News & Press Releases
7 October 2016
At the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has reaffirmed Scotland’s commitment to global leadership with £1 million to support developing countries tackle the challenge of climate change.
6 October 2016
The Arctic Circle Assembly 2016 - the 4th edition of the annual conference - started off with a great deal of fanfare in Reykjavik, Iceland on Thursday, October 6th.
30 September 2016
Delegates from 24 nations, the six Permamanent Participants to the Arctic Council and the European Union took part in the first ever White House Arctic Science Ministerial on September 28th in Washington DC.
29 September 2016
The recording of White House Arctic Science Ministerial Side-Event is now available
24 September 2016
Organized by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), Arctic Portal, Woods Hole Research Center, Arctic 21, the PoLAR Partnership, and the EDU-ARCTIC consortium, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, the Arctic Science Ministerial Side-Event will take place in Washington, th D.C. on the morning of September 27 at the ARCUS Washington DC office.
18 September 2016
During the first UArctic Congress, top-level scientist in marine geology, oceanography and paleoceanography Prof Jörn Thiede from Saint Petersburg University (SPbU) presented the Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences.
15 September 2016
The latest data on Arctic sea ice extent suggests that 2016 might see the second lowest minimum extent, at least since satellites started observing Arctic sea ice extent in 1979.
10 September 2016
One of the less talked about consequences of climate change is the effect that climate warming has been having on permafrost – frozen soil with large amounts of ice mixed in that exists in the Arctic, sub-Arctic, Antarctic and mountainous regions of the world.
8 September 2016
The Committee of Ministers Report concerning the interests in the Arctic was presented at the University of Akureyri on September 8th.
7 September 2016
New 3-D topographic maps of Alaska were recently released to help with better decision-making in the US Arctic state, according to The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency website.
5 September 2016
From September 5-9, 2016, activities during the upcoming Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) will be planned in Reading, UK. A web stream will be available from Monday 12:00 pm (GMT+1) to follow the two meetings online throughout the week, according to the Polar Prediction Project (PPP) web-site.
1 September 2016
Two significant earthquakes recently occurred in the north-east part of Katla, one of the largest and the most active volcanoes in Iceland, according to the Icelandic Met Office.
23 August 2016
Washington, DC, August 22nd, 2016 – In tandem with the first ever White House Arctic Science Ministerial scheduled to take place September 28th, several leading nonprofit organizations will host an expert forum to discuss how Arctic research can be used to empower Northerners who are living on the front lines of climate change, as well as ways to encourage young people to pursue careers in the ever increasingly important fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
19 August 2016
On Tuesday August 23rd from 10:00 am to 11:00 am Alaska Daylight Time (UTC-8), the Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) will host a webinar talk about uncertainty in sea ice estimates with Walt Meir from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the US.
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