News & Press Releases
5 September 2019
Mr. Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States, and Mr. Gudlaugur Thór Thórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, led a round table discussion on strengthening commercial, scientific and cultural ties between the US and Iceland with the participation of key American and Icelandic business leaders in Höfði, Reykjavík on 4th September 2019.
3 September 2019
An entire year trapped in the Arctic ice, The largest Central Arctic expedition ever.
In September 2019 the German research icebreaker Polarstern will depart from Tromsø, Norway and, once it has reached its destination, will spend the next year drifting through the Arctic Ocean, trapped in the ice.
2 September 2019
The Sea Ice Predication Network Phase 2 (SIPN2) announces the release of the 2019 August Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) Report. The Sea Ice Outlook, an effort managed by SIPN2, provides an open process for those interested in Arctic sea ice to share ideas.
28 August 2019
The Canadian Studies Center has issued its August newsletter. A web version of the newsletter is available online for further reading.
27 August 2019
According to the newsprovider Arctic Today the Trump administration on August 23 released documents that pushed two controversial Arctic Alaska projects forward. One is the Ambler Road Project, which would carve a 211-mile (approx. 340 km) road through the Brooks Range foothills to an isolated region of northwestern Alaska that holds copper reserves.
22 August 2019
With the successful operations of CNARC fellowship program for the past years, CNARC Secretariat is launching its Fellowship Program for the Year 2019 – 2020.
19 August 2019
Climate change is melting glaciers worldwide. Only we can stop it.
By Mrs. Katrin Jakobsdottir, the prime minister of Iceland.
16 August 2019
The Call for Abstracts for the 3rd Polar Data Forum has been extended from 16 August, 2019 to 6 September, 2019. Abstracts can be submitted through the Forum website at https://polar-data-forum.org/
14 August 2019
The European Commission has recently opened a webpage for information regarding the next research and innovation framework programme (2021 -2027). The Commission´s proposal for Horizon Europe is an ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme to succeed Horizon 2020.
13 August 2019
The European Political Strategy Centre has just published Strategic Notes “Walking on Thin Ice: A Balanced Arctic Strategy for the EU“.
13 August 2019
The EU-H2020 funded INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) opens a call for research groups to apply for Transnational Access to 42 research stations across the Arctic and northern alpine and forest areas in Europe, Russia and North-America.
9 August 2019
According to NSIDC (National Snow & Ice Data Center) arctic sea ice extent for multiple individual days and for the month of July tracked a record low levels. Europe´s record-breaking heat wave moved north by the end of July enhancing melt over the Greenland ice sheet.
6 August 2019
The Independent published an article written by Emma Snaith about a young Arctic fox that left researchers "thunderstruck" after it walked hundreds of miles across the ice from Norway’s Svalbard islands to northern Canada in a record of 76 days.
6 August 2019
According to an interesting article in the ScienceNews written by Carolyn Gramling the Arctic is on fire.
31 July 2019
Last week in Northern Lapland was particularly warm and on the 23 July at Kevo in Utsjoki, the Meteorological Institute measured 30.1 degrees, which is the record high for July in Lapland.
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