News & Press Releases
9 May 2016
With March 2016 seeing the second lowest Arctic Sea Ice maximum extent since 1979, and with sea ice conditions already at record lows for this time of year, there is already talk that September 2016 may see another record low Arctic sea ice minimum extent.
4 May 2016
The Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are hosting the third annual Polar Prediction Workshop on 4-6 May 2016 at the Sea Ice Outlook in Palisades, New York, USA.
2 May 2016
On Wednesday 27 April, the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) released its latest joint communication outlining an integrated EU policy for the Arctic.
28 April 2016
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
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
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
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 Ltd. is looking for partners to conduct an international Arctic expedition in the summer of 2017.
31 March 2016
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
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
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.
29 March 2016
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ Press Release -- The Governance Committee for the Arctic Economic Council (AEC) is pleased to announce it has approved the Arctic Economic Council's foundational documents for ratification at its annual meeting in Tromsø, Norway in April.
23 March 2016
What is permafrost? What happens when permafrost thaws? This animation created by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in cooperation with the agency eventfive GmbH, Bremen answers these questions.
23 March 2016
Call for Sessions - The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) announces the 9th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS IX) to be held at the campus of Umeå University, in Umeå, Sweden, from 8-12 June 2017.
23 March 2016
Four-year PhD position in high-resolution atmosphere-ice-ocean modelling available at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve
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