News & Press Releases
3 December 2012
The National Energy Authority of Iceland (NEA) has today finished processing two applications for licences for exploration and production of hydrocarbons in the Dreki Area. The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in Norway has today, 3 December 2012, notified NEA of their decision to participate in both licences to a 25 % share in accordance with the agreement between Iceland and Norway.
3 December 2012
Monday, 3rd of December 2012 the workshop on Arctic Transportation Infrastructure Response and Capacity and Sustainable Development in the Arctic starts today in Hotel Natura in the capital city of Iceland – Reykjavik.
30 November 2012
Leading researches and experts, politicians, representatives from business and authorities are attending the conference "Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region in the field of education and research as a resource for regional development".
29 November 2012
A seminar entitled Civilisation of Reindeer and future of the Arctic is shown live over the internet today.
28 November 2012
Leading researches and experts, politicians, representatives from business and authorities are attending the conference "Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region in the field of education and research as a resource for regional development" which began yesterday.
28 November 2012
Iceland will have two new windmills set up this winter. They were transported to its location this week, but Iceland has a short history of windmill use.
27 November 2012
A new report of current rates of changes of land ice in the Arctic and North-Atlantic region has been released. It shows that the Greenlandic glacier shrinks by 200 square kilometers every year.
27 November 2012
At the beginning of November 2012, The Russian government sparked major reactions internationally, when the country's Ministry of Justice ordered the closure of Russian's indigenous peoples' umbrella organization RAIPON, because of an "alleged lack of correspondence between the association's statutes and federal law".
23 November 2012
Arctic Transportation Infrastructure: Response Capacity and Sustainable Development one important component of the Arctic Marine and Aviation Transportation Infrastructure Initiative (AMATII) - opens Monday, December 3 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
22 November 2012
Argentinian scientists have discovered the largest penguin ever. Paleontologists from the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata province in Argentina announced this week that they have discovered fossils of 2 meter tall (6 1/2-foot) penguins in Antarctica.
21 November 2012
Norway and Russia have strengthened their joint research ventures by putting around €1,5 million Euros to three projects.
19 November 2012
Norway has decided to strengthen its security around Svalbard by sending its most modern warship to the archipelago.
8 November 2012
Norway's state-owned energy giant Statoil on Wednesday evacuated around 330 people from a North Sea platform off the coast of Norway after it began listing.
7 November 2012
An Icelandic woman starts her journey to the South Pole today. She intends to walk 1140 kilometers to be the first Icelandic women to reach the Pole.
1 November 2012
The first drilling for natural resources in Alaskan waters for over two decades has been completed for this year. Shell was drilling and intends to return next year to go even deeper.
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