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Discovering Siberia

I am a 25-years old third year student of University of Lapland who has always been interested in remote places. I’m doing my bachelors in sociology and w...

Tue, Jun 19, 2012

Meeting on Kolarctic Barents Cross Border University project

On June 5-6, 2012 Narvik University College (Norway) hosted the 5th steering group and working group meeting of Kolarctic ENPI CBC Barents Cross Border...

Tue, Jun 19, 2012

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

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