• Polar Bears are fundamentally dependent upon sea ice (Caseimage)
    29 June 2010

    Biodiversity Trends: The Polar Bear

    ‘Arctic Biodiversity Trends – 2010: Selected Indicators of Change’, the Arctic Council/CAFF report synthesizing scientific findings on the status and trends for selected biodiversity in the Arctic, was launched earlier this year. It has one chapter on Polar Bears, and the findings from this chapter are summarized below.

    Over the past several decades a number of studies have documented significant reductions in sea-ice cover in parts of the Arctic, thinning of multi-year ice and seasonal ice, and changes in the dates of break-up and freeze-up of sea ice.
    Polar bears are distributed throughout the ice-covered waters of the . . .

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  1. 29 June 2010

    Inuit Leaders Meet in Nuuk, Greenland

    Greenland hosts the World's Inuit Leaders in Nuuk, June 28 – July 2, 2010. The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), one of the 6 Permanent Participants in the Arctic Council, holds its General Assembly in Nuuk, Greenland, from June 28 to July 2.

    Greenlandic singers in Nuuk
  2. 23 June 2010

    EPPR Meeting in Vorkuta

    Emercom of the Russian Federation hosted the annual meeting of the Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Working Group of the Arctic Council in Vorkuta, Russia, which took place June 16-18.

    EPPR Meeting in Vorkuta, Russia, June 2010

Calendar

Upcoming events Arctic Council
  1. 25 - 26 August 2010

    SAON Steering Group Meeting

    Reykjavik, Iceland

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  2. 02 - 03 September 2010

    ACAP Working Group Meeting, Oslo, Norway

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Upcoming events others
  1. 13 - 15 September 2010

    Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region

    The European Parliament, Brussels

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  2. 23 - 29 January 2011

    Arctic Frontiers 2011

    Tromsø, Norway

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…that there are 16.647 place names in the Svalbard Archipelago!