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The Canadian Studies Center has issued its August newsletter. A web version of the newsletter is available online for further reading.
According to the newsprovider Arctic Today the Trump administration on August 23 released documents that pushed two controversial Arctic Alaska projects forward. One is the Ambler Road Project, which would carve a 211-mile (approx. 340 km) road through the Brooks Range foothills to an isolated region of northwestern Alaska that holds copper reserves.
With the successful operations of CNARC fellowship program for the past years, CNARC Secretariat is launching its Fellowship Program for the Year 2019 – 2020.
Climate change is melting glaciers worldwide. Only we can stop it.
By Mrs. Katrin Jakobsdottir, the prime minister of Iceland.
The Call for Abstracts for the 3rd Polar Data Forum has been extended from 16 August, 2019 to 6 September, 2019. Abstracts can be submitted through the Forum website at https://polar-data-forum.org/
The European Commission has recently opened a webpage for information regarding the next research and innovation framework programme (2021 -2027). The Commission´s proposal for Horizon Europe is an ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme to succeed Horizon 2020.
The European Political Strategy Centre has just published Strategic Notes “Walking on Thin Ice: A Balanced Arctic Strategy for the EU“.
The EU-H2020 funded INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) opens a call for research groups to apply for Transnational Access to 42 research stations across the Arctic and northern alpine and forest areas in Europe, Russia and North-America.
According to NSIDC (National Snow Ice Data Center) arctic sea ice extent for multiple individual days and for the month of July tracked a record low levels. Europe´s record-breaking heat wave moved north by the end of July enhancing melt over the Greenland ice sheet.
The Independent published an article written by Emma Snaith about a young Arctic fox that left researchers "thunderstruck" after it walked hundreds of miles across the ice from Norway’s Svalbard islands to northern Canada in a record of 76 days.
According to an interesting article in the ScienceNews written by Carolyn Gramling the Arctic is on fire.
Last week in Northern Lapland was particularly warm and on the 23 July at Kevo in Utsjoki, the Meteorological Institute measured 30.1 degrees, which is the record high for July in Lapland.
EU-PolarNet has issued its July newsletters. The project is in its last year and is therefore preparing its last major deliverables as e.g. the Integrated European Polar Research Programme on the White paper on European polar infrastructure access and interoperability.
The Russian American Pacific Partnership 24th Annual Meeting took place in Khabarovsk, Russia, on June 26-27, 2019.
Greenland 22°C degrees hotter than normal, the Canadian and Siberian permafrost melting with unprecedented speed, local populations facing new challenges to survive, the European climate under the impact of the changing Arctic - the Arctic is ever more in the headlines. The EU-funded Arctic research projects met in Brussels to discuss synergies and common strategies to boost their impact on policy and people.
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