News & Press Releases
16 October 2015
President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, has welcomed today more than 1900 attendees from about 50 different nationalities to the third edition of the "Arctic Circle", the annual Arctic-event held in October at the Harpa Conference Center and Conference Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland.
15 October 2015
The Arctic Circle 2015, the Arctic assembly held annually in Reykjavik (since 2013), will open today with a Welcome Reception at the Reykjavík Art Museum, in the Harbor House, while the Opening Plenary Session will be tomorrow at 8:30 in Harpa.
13 October 2015
In order to promote the polar research of China, with the consent of the State Oceanic Administration, the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) is recruiting "Senior Oceanic Talented Personnel" globally.
13 October 2015
ACI's 8th Arctic Shipping Summit taking place on 23rd - 24th March 2016 in Montreal will focus on discussing the practical solutions necessary for the ship owners to decide whether they should invest in utilising the Northern Sea Route.
12 October 2015
The General Assembly 2015 of the EU-funded PAGE21, "Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century", will be held at the KEA Hotel in Akureyri, Iceland 13 – 15 October 2015.
9 October 2015
Following the success of the fourth meeting of the International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN) in Christchurch (NZ), the fifth meeting is set to take place in end August 2016 in the northeast of Iceland.
8 October 2015
Following the success of the 2011 inaugural Summit, Eye on Earth 2015 took centre stage on October 6-8 in Abu Dhabi, to promote dialogue and drive international action that revolutionises the way we collect, access, share and use data and information for real-world change. The 2015 summit sought to foster a culture of collaboration through a network committed to achieving scalable impact for a sustainable future.
8 October 2015
The Nordic ruralities conference is an interdisciplinary forum for rural research with a particular emphasis on the Nordic countries.
7 October 2015
Green Growth was named a primary focus area by the Nordic Prime Ministers in November 2011. Since then, the Nordic Council of Ministers has granted a total of DKK 66 million to a wide range of initiatives focusing on green growth.
6 October 2015
Today, the BarentsObserver has reported that Russia will establish a new media resource aimed at promoting Russian national interest in the Arctic, as part of the state-owned TASS (the piece of news was reported firstly by TASS, available only in Russian).
29 September 2015
Today, The Gordon Foundation released the full report of "Rethinking the Top of the World: Arctic Public Opinion Survey, Vol. 2" at the Arctic Energy Summit in Fairbanks, Alaska.
28 September 2015
Today, Monday September 28th, the Arctic Energy Summit starts in Fairbanks, Alaska. The event is broadcasted live here.
25 September 2015
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
24 September 2015
The Annual International Forum "Arctic: Today And The Future" takes place in December in St. Petersburg.
22 September 2015
Today, typhoon survivors and civil society groups in the Philippines delivered a complaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) calling for an investigation into the responsibility of big fossil fuel companies for fuelling catastrophic climate change that is resulting in human rights violations" Greenpeace Philippines reported this morning.
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