News & Press Releases
11 December 2015
The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) engages Northerners and scientists to research and monitor long-range contaminants in the Canadian Arctic. Long-range contaminants are transported to the Arctic through atmospheric and oceanic processes from other parts of the world. They remain in the Arctic environment and build up in the food chain. The call for proposals is announced in November of each year with results announced in late spring/early summer. The program funds about $4.1 million in research annually.
10 December 2015
The US Department of Interior published yesterday the story of Esau Sinnok, Arctic Youth Ambassador, who lives Shishmaref, Alaska (population: 650). Shishmaref is a village that "is so remote that it is only accessible by airplane, and we only get fresh food products from other parts of Alaska every one to two months. If we can’t hunt and fish to feed ourselves in the winter, we will starve", Esau writes.
9 December 2015
The Arctic Encounter will host its first international event - Arctic Encounter Paris - at the French Military College (École Militaire), the French Military Library and Campus Eiffel in Paris, France, on December 10-11-12, 2015.
8 December 2015
Russia wants China to participate in constructing railways to transport cargo to ports on the Arctic or Northern Sea Route, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.
7 December 2015
Paris, 4 December 2015 - The Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced that it will launch an investigation on December 10 (International Human rights Day), which could hold fossil fuel companies responsible for the impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events. This will be the world's first national human rights investigation into big polluters.
7 December 2015
The Arctic Coastal Dynamics has a new website, designed and hosted by the Arctic Portal team.
4 December 2015
The Arctic Cooperation Programme of the Nordic Council of Ministers has opened up its call for project applications for financial support in 2016 to new project proposals as well as for the continuation of existing projects.
3 December 2015
An Inuit delegation has gone to Paris, to the COP21, to deliver the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) position paper on climate change.
2 December 2015
The deadline for submission of abstracts for ICOP2016 as well as for applications for young researcher travel grants and workshop participation has been extended to 20 December 2015.
1 December 2015
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21)is taking place (30 November to 11 December 2015) at the Paris-Le Bourget site.
30 November 2015
Following the 5th Forum of the European Marine Board (EMB), which took place in Brussels on October 21st 2015, a video summary and the "Ocean Nexus Consensus Statement" have been released.
27 November 2015
Arctic Frontiers: Industry and Environment will be held in Tromsø, Norway, on 24-29 January 2016
26 November 2015
As energy companies retreat from exploration in the Arctic, Italy’s Eni SpA outlines the final preparation of the Goliat platform, the world’s largest and most sophisticated circular FPSO, which is well under way in the Barents Sea. Eni is set to begin pumping at its Goliat platform before the end of this year. It would open a flow that will eventually reach 100,000 barrels a day and place Eni among a select group of oil producers in the region.
25 November 2015
On November 20th, during a regular press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei addressed key geopolitical issues as the relation with Japan and the US about the South China Sea, China's role in Syria, EU's concerns over China’s detention of lawyers, and China's participation in Arctic affairs.
24 November 2015
The 11th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2016) will be held in Potsdam, Germany, 20-24 June 2016. The conference aims at covering all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering and outreach on a global and regional level.
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