The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has published its UNEP Year Book 2013, an annual study of emerging environmental Issues. Numerous Arctic issues are highlighted in the report, including the record 2012 low in Arctic summer ice cover. The full press release from UNEP follows.

Thematic Networks leaders shared experiences and discussed about co-operation in Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation in a meeting hosted by Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU)

The Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University invites applications for a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management. It is anticipated that the appointment will be tenure-stream and made at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Details about the CRC program are available at: http://www....

Rethinking rural resilience: Tourism’s future in rural and peripheral development?Tourism is one sector of the economy purported to benefit rural and peripheral regions. Rural and peripheral communities have been and are still being established as outposts of capitalism and prosper through primary industries such as agricult...

Please be informed about the release of the Tentative Program for the Artek Event 2013. You may visit our Website for more information: http://indico.conferences.dtu.dk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=125 Registration deadline is 15th of march 2013, maximum number of participants is 100, so please make sure to register in due tim...

3rd call for abstractsENECON in cooperation with the Northern Research ForumCLIMATE CHANGE IN NORTHERN TERRITORIESSharing Experiences, Exploring New Methods and Assessing Socio-Economic Impacts Conference in Akureyri, Iceland 22. - 23. August 2013 Further information click here

The INTERACT project under EU-FP7 has a Transnational Access program that offers access to research stations in the northernmost Europe and Russian Federation. The current TA call is open to Boreal Stations within the INTERACT network, including six stations in Norway, Finland, Russian Federation and Faroe Islands. The sites...

ACI is pleased to announce the after conference workshop, taking place on 14th of March 2013 in Montreal, Canada and focusing on Arctic present special problems with respect to search and rescue, marine response, salvage and pollution countermeasures in harsh environment as well as poor communications and lack of capability...

Arctic Environment Ministers and high level representatives met in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, 5-6 February, for a meeting focused on actions to address the rapid environmental changes in the Arctic and how to improve the protection of the Arctic environment through actions at the national, regional and global level, including throu...

                                                                              The Norwegian-Russian conference "Innovation in Education, Research and Business: Norwegian and Russian perspectives" takes place at University of Nordland, Bodø, Norway on Monday 18th of March and Tuesday 19th of March.

Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland is seeking for a Senior Impact Assessment Expert in Rovaniemi, Finland to work for the Preparatory Action: “Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of development of the Arctic” project funded by the European Commission.

The European Commission has selected a consortium led by the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) to carry out a one million euro project to produce a “Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of development of the Arctic”. The project will last eighteen months during 2013–2014.