News & Press Releases

Arctic Portal News Portlet

2 October 2013

Autumn in the Arctic. Abisko, northern Sweden

Following three highly successful editions, this year´s Arctic Futures Symposium will take place in Brussels on 16th – 17th October.

1 October 2013

Hunter in the arctic

Arctic Frontiers holds its 8th annual conference in Tromsø, Norway, from 19-24 January 2014, with the title: Humans in the Arctic.

30 September 2013

Melting Arctic ice

"Poles Apart" - the one day conference will take place on Tuesday, October 29th 2013 in London, United Kingdom.

30 September 2013

Polar Law Textbook

Polar Law Textbook II
Natalia Loukacheva (ed.), Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers

Publication date
May 27, 2013

ISBN
978-92-893-2550-9

Language
English

Number of pages
303

Publication number
TemaNord 2013:535

26 September 2013

Putin during his speech.

President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, held a speech at the third international Arctic Forum, in Salekhard. The first such forum was held in Moscow in September 2010, the second - in Arkhangelsk in 2011.

23 September 2013

Melting Sea Ice in the arctic

After an unusually cold summer in the northernmost latitudes, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum summer extent for 2013 on Sept. 13, the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado in Boulder has reported. Analysis of satellite data by NSIDC and NASA showed that the sea ice extent shrunk to 1.97 million square miles (5.10 million square kilometers).

23 September 2013

Participants of PAGE21 General Assembly gathered in Abisko, northern Sweden

Today, Monday the 23rd of September, participants of PAGE21 General Assembly have been officially welcomed in Abisko Research Station.

22 September 2013

PAGE21 young researchers meet in Abisko, northern Sweden

Today, Sunday the 22nd of September, permafrost young researchers gathered in Abisko during the 2nd Page21 General Assembly Young Researchers workshop.

17 September 2013

North West Passage documentary team

We are happy to announce that permafrost drilling team from Herschel Island got a deserved recognition and was accompanied by the Doc Studio – an online community for documentary filmmakers.

16 September 2013

HOF - Culture House in Akureyri and the conference venue

Once again, after highly successful 2007 Arctic Energy Summit and Technology Conference, The Institute of the North, together with its Icelandic partner – the Arctic Portal, is organizing The 2013 Arctic Energy Summit.

12 September 2013

Arctic Week in Iceland

October of 2013 presents an excellent opportunity to visit Iceland and attend two exciting Arctic conferences, held back to back in one of Europe's hottest travel destinations.

11 September 2013

Stefanie and Young Sound Fjord in the background Kjersti Gisnås

PAGE21 young researchers have just started their fall season of permafrost investigation in remote areas, located in the northern hemisphere. So far we have received interesting writings from Samoylov and Zackenberg, located in North – East Greenland.

10 September 2013

Arctic Circle

We are pleased to announce further collaboration between the Arctic Energy Summit and the Arctic Circle. Anyone that is registered for the 2013 Arctic Energy Summit will also be able to attend the inaugural Arctic Circle that will be held 12-14 October in Reykjavik, Iceland FREE OF CHARGE.

6 September 2013

arctic landscape

Cairn Energy, one of Europe´s leading independent oil and gas exploration and development companies, has revealed their long term plans for exploration drilling programme, which may involve in resuming activity off Greenland.

5 September 2013

Autumn in Akureyri

The Arctic is sometimes described as the last frontier in the development of energy resources.

The Institute of the North's Arctic Energy Summit will explore energy as a fundamental element of the sustainable development of the Arctic as a lasting frontier.

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