News & Press Releases

Arctic Portal News Portlet

24 May 2016

Arctic Summer College

The Ecologic Institute, a non-profit environmental consulting organisation headquartered in Washington DC and Berlin that conducts environmental research and prepares political analyses for decision-makers, is accepting calls from both professionals and students to take part in the Arctic Summer College 2016 webinar series.

20 May 2016

oil vessel

On Wednesday 18 May, the Norwegian Government officially granted ten exploration licences to oil and gas companies to operate in the Barents Sea. Norwegian Petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien presided over an official ceremony marking the 23rd Licensing Round in Hammerstein.

18 May 2016

ARCUS

On Thursday May 19th, Mark Brzezinski, Executive Director of the US Arctic Executive Steering Committee, will be giving a live webinar lecture at 12:00 noon EDT (UTC-4) about the activities of the U.S. Arctic Executive Steering Committee and the upcoming White House Arctic Science Ministerial planned for September 28th.

28 April 2016

Xuelong

Joint Press Release of the First Trilateral High-Level Dialogue on the Arctic among the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China which took place in Seoul in Korea earlier today, April. 28th.

20 April 2016

International Arctic Science Committee

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) seeks an Executive Secretary to direct the IASC Secretariat, to guide IASC activities and to manage IASC finances.

15 April 2016

CNARC symposium attendees

The 4th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will take place in Rovaniemi, Finland, from the 6th to 9th of June 2016, under the theme “The Sustainable Arctic - Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization”.

6 April 2016

Wilson Center

Hello from Anchorage, Alaska!

The Arctic Economic Development Forum is taking place today, Wednesday, April 6 at The Wilson Center in Washington, DC. This unique event is co-hosted by the Alaska-based Institute of the North and The Wilson Center.

1 April 2016

Arctia's multipurpose icebreaker Otso escorting Mirva

Arctia Ltd. is looking for partners to conduct an international Arctic expedition in the summer of 2017.

31 March 2016

Magens Bay, Virgin Islands

Discussion comes on heels of significant grant to Islands’ Climate Change Council to strengthen resilience for communities on the front lines of a changing climate

30 March 2016

NSU

Invitation

We invite scholars, students, artists and practitioners to take part in investigating the many forms by which we experience the presences of political reality, and in approaching these forms from social, artistic, aesthetic and cultural analysis. We wish to articulate the ideological forces underlying today’s political thinking. We also want to inaugurate a debate on the role of cultural approaches in political analysis. We wish to break new paths in connecting the cultural humanities and the political sciences and invite participants to bravely explore new ways of studying the issue. We believe that experimentation is crucial for rethinking the political.

29 March 2016

Reindeer during winter

A White House Arctic science summit taking place in either August or September will bring together science ministers from Arctic Council nations and other countries that have significant Arctic science programs, said U.S. Ambassador David Balton, chair of the Arctic Council’s Senior Arctic Officials (SAO) group, at an 18 March briefing.

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