The President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, will present a keynote address during the University of the Arctic's 10 Year Seminar on the theme of Green Growth. President Grímsson has been a long-time supporter of the University of the Arctic and the Northern Research Forum. This marks a historic return to the same Fellma...

A meeting of leading international health experts and indigenous leaders from the Far North was hosted by the Dickey Center for International Understanding and its Institute of Arctic Studies on May 23-25, 2011, to discuss the effects of rapid environmental and social change on the health and social institutions of peoples li...

A center for Arctic research opened on Saturday at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University in the Russian northern city of Akhangelsk. About 400 million rubles were spent to buy equipment manufactured by the leading global makers, the university’s press center said.

Organizers announce that registration is available for the 4th Symposiumon the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations. The event will be held 20-22 June 2011 at the Navy Memorial Naval Heritage Center (701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW) in Washington, D.C.

The International Centre for Responsible Tourism Canada, Inc. (ICRT CANADA) will be hosting the 5th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations (RTD5) in Edmonton, June 27-29, 2011 at the University of Alberta Lister Centre.

"Our Ice Dependent World", organized by the Northern Research Forum and its partners as the Northern Research Forum 6th Open Assembly, will be hosted by the University of Akureyri in the town of Hveragerði, Iceland 4. - 6. September 2011

The new issue of UArctic's annual magazine Shared Voices has been released and is now accessible for download.

Arctic reindeer can see beyond the "visible" light spectrum into the ultra-violet region, according to new research by an international team.

The Shtokman project is comparable with the conquering of the cosmos, deputy leader of the Shtokman Development AG says.

Applications are invited from well-qualified candidates for the post of Research Fellow at the Thule Institute of the University of Oulu.

In a little less than a year the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, April 22 27, 2012.

The program for the 9th International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar, held in Luxembourg July 17-22, 2011, has been updated. Please click here to view the program.

Registration is now open for the Polar Symposium in Siena, Italy, September 23-24, 2011 "Research urgencies in the Polar Regions and their links to the ICSU Grand Challenges in Global Sustainability". It will address all aspects of polar science, with a focus on the functioning of the Earth System in the Arctic and Antarct...

Research professors Bruce Forbes and Timo Koivurova were interviewed for an article dealing with Arctic development.

The most recent German OSTEUROPA Volume ”Logbook Arctic – Space, Interests and Law” makes reference to UArctic in the context of regionalization and the future of the Arctic.