News & Press Releases
7 December 2011
As reported here on Arctic Portal Icelandic glaciers are retreating fast, and now the BBC reports the same problem in France.
5 December 2011
Iceland could lose all its glaciers in a few hundred years. A glacier expert predicts a 6m rise of the sea.
2 December 2011
The 2011 Arctic Report Card has been published. Amongst the results are significant changes in the atmosphere and the sea ice and the ocean.
2 December 2011
Denmark will be self-sufficient with oil and gas, at least until 2050. These new numbers are much higher then anticipated.
2 December 2011
Greenpeace fooled oil company executives into a meeting to lecture them about exploration. A real meeting was held, but the executives were directed to another location.
1 December 2011
A new website was launched today, PAGE21.eu. The EU funded project brings leading scientists together studying permafrost.
1 December 2011
The Northern Sea Route was busier then ever this year. In total, 34 vessels used the route, a significant increase from only 4 in 2010.
30 November 2011
1. December is the Antarctica Day, a young tradition only first celebrated last year. It celebrates the signature of the Antarctic Treaty on 1 December 1959 and the worldwide significance of this landmark.
29 November 2011
"No, congratulations to you!" one of the crew in new Icelandic guard ship Þór (named after the God of Thunder) told me as I walked aboard to have a look around. "This belongs to all Icelanders, and they should all be proud if it," he said and smiled.
28 November 2011
Lack of ice is hindering hunting in Greenland. Humans are not the only one who rely on hunting in, the dogs in Qaanaaq are starving.
24 November 2011
The Ministry Transport in Russia has introduced a new bill regarding "state regulation of merchant shipping in the waters of the Northern Sea Route. The website of the Ministry reads that Minister of Transport, Sergey Aristov, introduced the bill in Duma.
23 November 2011
New research strengthens the belief that there is oil in the seabed around Jan Mayen.
23 November 2011
The Abisko Scientific Research Station introduces a PhD training course on multidisciplinary issues related snow and climate change effects on it. "Snowtalks" will be held on the 19th of March til the 23rd of 2012.
21 November 2011
High gold prices have led to extensive search for the material. In northern Norway a new gold discovery could become very valuable, but the expedition not only found gold.
18 November 2011
The Northern Sea Route shipping season is now over. To much ice in the Arctic ocean hinders any more shipping.
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