News & Press Releases

Arctic Portal News Portlet

21 August 2015

Inuit Circumpolar Council

The executive council of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) held it's Executive Council Meeting in Bethel, Alaska on 18-19 August 2015.

19 August 2015

Arctic Circle 2015

The Arctic Circle 2015 will be held in Reykjavik, 16-18 October 2015. The full draft program for the 2015 Assembly is now available.

19 August 2015

Pipeline in the arctic

Organizers announce the availability of a National Weather Service Alaska Climate Forecast Briefing webinar.

18 August 2015

Offshore operation

Washington — After extensive review and under a robust array of safety requirements, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director Brian Salerno today announced that Shell has received approval of one Application for Permit to Modify (APM) to conduct exploratory drilling activities into potential oil-bearing zones offshore Alaska at one of the wells at the Burger Prospect, Burger J. The company remains limited to the top section of the Burger V well.

17 August 2015

Parody of Uptown Funk with Bruno Mars

A group of Dolgan herders have released few time ago a parody of the hit  "Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars".

14 August 2015

Arctic sea-ice and median lines 1979-2010

Later this month, President Obama will travel to Alaska and shine a spotlight on what Alaskans in particular have come to know: Climate change is one of the biggest threats we face, it is being driven by human activity, and it is disrupting Americans' lives right now.

13 August 2015

Aurora Borealis in the arctic

The Eighth Polar Law Symposium will be held in Alaska, September 23-26 2015.

12 August 2015

CNARC building

With the successful first-year try-out of CNARC fellowship program in Year 2014, CNARC Secretariat is about to launch its Fellowship Program for Year 2015 - 2016.

11 August 2015

 

Northern Research Forum

The third annual Trans Arctic Agenda will merge with the 8th NRF Open Assembly and take place in Reykjavik, Iceland on 14-15 October 2015. The theme of 2015 is Engaging Cultural Heritage when Building Resilience.

10 August 2015

Faroe Islands

Every summer, a number of pilot whales was hunted on the island of Vágar in the northwest of the Faroe Islands archipelago. 

7 August 2015

Arctic Energy Summit Logo 2015

Registration is open for the Arctic Energy Summit 2015 ""Security and Affordability for a Resilient North", that will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 28-30.

6 August 2015

The main definitions currently in use to describe the Arctic

A selection of Arctic Portal maps are now available online for free download. Since 2009, Arctic Portal  has been providing visual information about Arctic related information (as sea-ice conditions, shipping lines, resources, Arctic people, governance, etc..) through various databases.

5 August 2015

Russian Federation Flag

"On 3 August 2015, the Russian Federation submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, in accordance with Article 76, paragraph 8, of the Convention, and with reference to its Submission of 20 December 2001, information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of its territorial sea is measured in respect of the Arctic Ocean" the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)'s website reported yesterday.

4 August 2015

Arctic Portal news

IQALUIT, Nunavut (July 31, 2015) – The European Union (EU) has formally approved the Government of Nunavut's (GN) application to become a Recognized Body under the Indigenous Communities Exemption of the EU Seal Regime.

31 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

"Arctic Biodiversity Through the Lens", a photography exhibit displaying the beauty of the Arctic, will open in Akureyri, Iceland, Friday July 31 at the Hof Cultural building at 14:00.

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