Wednesday was the Inuit And Arctic Indigenous Peoples Day on the Arctic Venue. It was a day for celebrating the Arctic Indigenous Peoples culture and global call to action against the global warming and the consequences for the Arctic Indigenous culture and way of life.

Energy companies and governments are struggling to advance multibillion-dollar pipelines to tap Arctic gas reserves and bring the supplies to North American markets. Here are the proposals.

A joint Russian-Norwegian project to develop common safety standards for the petroleum industry in the Barents Sea presented a series of recommendations in Moscow this week.

A new study from the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen Institute concludes that a military dispute over natural resources in the Arctic is not very likely, and that dispassionate diplomacy is a more likely and rational way of dispute resolution than military confrontation.

On The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) list of ten new species that are the likeliest to be hit hard by global warming, Canada has the dubious honor of being home to half of the list. Of the ten species “destined to be hardest hit by climate change,” the leatherback turtle, salmon, beluga whale, ringed seal and Arctic fox were listed and all live in Canada.

Despite financial crisis and low prices on the global mineral market, the mining industry in northern Norway is in growth. In Mo i Rana the mining company recently had to emplyed more workers to meet new productions demands, after a year of hard times and low production.

Despite several rounds of negotiations, Norway and the EU have not been able to conclude a bilateral fisheries agreement for 2010.

A new Canadian Senate committee report recommends that any foreign ships that travel in Canadian Arctic waters should have to report to the Canadian authorities.

New models show the Arctic summer ice cap may nearly vanish in the summer much sooner that the year 2030, as earlier forecasted.

According to researchers in California, one of the consequences of the melting Arctic ice is that the Atlantic Ocean could see mollusks from the Pacifica take up residency within decades. In order for this to happen, the Arctic would need to see 125 consecutive days of less than 75% cover of sea ice. Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that this could happen around 2050, but a California researcher disagrees – he believes it could happen much sooner.