News & Press Releases
19 October 2011
The Canadian government has slashed its funding to the University of the Arctic from 710.000 to 150.000. Subsequently Canada will lose the office it hosted at the University of Saskatchewan, which was staffed by UArctic’s dean of undergraduate studies, Hayley Hesseln.
18 October 2011
ESA’s ice satellite is collecting data in the two poles, and the project is going well. The satellite is to give precise measurements of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.
14 October 2011
In the southern part of the Arctic the dream of oil is still alive. Iceland is hoping to find oil in the Dreki area but the crisis hit country could benefit by other means.
13 October 2011
Blocks of sea ice break annually from large ice caps in the Arctic. These blocks of ice can be up to kilometers in width.
12 October 2011
Icelandic company Arctic Trucks announced today that a new world record of the fastest overland journey to the South Pole has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records.
11 October 2011
British expedition is going to Antarctica to search for life. Their plan is to dig, with hot water, three kilometers down the ice.
10 October 2011
Icelandic company Arctic Trucks has finished building a new six wheeler truck, specially made to drive in the Antarctic. The foundations are a Toyota Hilux.
6 October 2011
Russia has put 10 million Euros into a project aiming at cleaning the Arctic. Environmental issues are high on the Russian Arctic agenda.
5 October 2011
Lack of icebreakers will most likely halt any tourism activity by cruise ships on the North Pole next year. Because of increased traffic by Russian vessels in the Northern Sea Route the icebreakers have enough to do.
5 October 2011
The cod is moving further north then ever before. Huge amounts of cod have been found northerly in the Barents Sea, as far north as 82 degrees much to researcher’s surprise.
4 October 2011
An ozone hole has formed over the Arctic. Like in the Antarctic so much ozone has dissolved it can now be called an "ozone hole".
3 October 2011
The National Energy Authority of Iceland (NEA), has today, announced the second Licensing Round for hydrocarbon exploration and production licences on the Icelandic Continental Shelf. The offer will be open from October 3, 2011 until April 2, 2011.
3 October 2011
The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) provides a major international collective voice for more than 155.000 Inuit from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and the Chukotka Peninsula. On behalf of people in Alaska the ICC in 2005 filed a legal petition against the government of the United States of America, saying its climate change policies violate human rights.
3 October 2011
The Cree just make it into the Arctic; they are on the border of the line made in the Arctic Human Development Report. They live in James Bay, which is a region of northern Quebec, in the northeastern part of Canada. Its area is a vast wilderness area and can only be reached by a single road. The remoteness is immense.
30 September 2011
The IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference abstracts deadline was initially today September 30, but has been extended to October 7, 2011 11:59 PM, EST. To submit your abstract, please go to the IPY 2012 Montréal homepage.
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