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Nordic Way at Rio+20 on UN TV

The opening meetings of Rio+20 have commenced and the exhibition grounds around the conference have opened, including Athletes Park where the stand of t...

Tue, Jun 19, 2012

Improving Food Security in the North: A Workshop on Sustainable Northern Greenhouses

The University of Saskatchewan’s International Centre for Northern Governance and Development, in collaboration with the UArctic Thematic Network on Food Sec...

Mon, Jun 18, 2012

Canada's Arctic ambassador urges cross-boundary thinking

Mary May Simon’s first lessons in leadership were at her grandmother’s knee, in front of a warm wood stove. Growing up in northern Quebec, Simon was dee...

Mon, Jun 18, 2012

Northern Studies Student in Lakehead University

Elisa Coates is of Caucasian descent and was born and raised in southern Ontario in Canada. The town she lives in ia a suburb of a larger city with 200,000 p...

Fri, Jun 15, 2012

Press Release: UArctic Moving Forward in Tromsø

The Council of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) has concluded its 15th meeting, this year hosted by the University of Tromsø. The main message from...

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

New special issue of The Polar Journal now available

Politics, Science and Environment in the Polar Regions edited by Mark Nuttall, The Polar Journal 2(1), 189pp.http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpol20/cu...

Wed, Jun 13, 2012

UArctic and NArFU sign agreement on Russian funding

Today, during the Council meeting in Tromsø, the University of the Arctic and its member institution the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) in Ark...

Tue, Jun 12, 2012

Call for papers: Arctic Frontiers 2013 - Geopolitics and Marine Production in a Changing Arctic

Arctic Frontiers (http://www.arcticfrontiers.com/) holds its 7th annual conference in Tromsø from 20-25 January 2013, Norway, with the title “Geopolitics and...

Mon, Jun 11, 2012

Screening of selected alkylphenolic compounds, biocides, rodenticides and current use pesticides

New findings have been published by a NIVA (Norwegian Institute for Water Research) from a project commissioned by the Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency...

Mon, Jun 11, 2012

UArctic Annual Report for 2011

UArctic's Board of Governors approve the UArctic Annual Report for 2011 at their recent meeting in Nuuk, Greenland. The report provides an overview of UArcti...

Fri, Jun 08, 2012

Uist student visits Iceland

Peter Ferguson, a University of the Highlands and Islands student from North Uist, at the Skaftaell glacier in Iceland. Peter is studying for a degree i...

Wed, Jun 06, 2012

Daria Burnasheva - Master in Arctic Studies

The first time I’ve become involved into the Arctic in 2006, when I took the first course of the BCS program offered by the University of the Arctic. That ti...

Tue, Jun 05, 2012

UArctic board meeting in Nuuk, Greenland

The University of the Arctic’s board meeting is taking place at Nuuk, Greenland from the 4th of June till the 6th of June, chaired by Barry Scherr. The Board...

Tue, Jun 05, 2012

UArctic Shared Voices 2012 Magazine released!

The new issue of UArctic's annual magazine Shared Voices has been released and is now accessible for download. This year's issue takes the theme of 'Our Nor...

Tue, Jun 05, 2012