Over the next five years, Finland’s embassy network will be scaled back for economic reasons. At the same time a Consulate General is to be set up in Murmansk.

The European Union has accused Greenland and other Arctic nations of failing to ensure the environment in the far north is properly safeguarded. Vice president of the EU, Diana Wallis, said she could imagine “people on the streets” protesting if wider international stewardship is not guaranteed.

Arctic Council told it is failing to safeguard the region, while EU accused of 'panic reactions' over deep-water drilling ban

"What the rest of you have been benefiting from should not be denied to us in the Arctic"

A WWF 2010 report ranks the ecological footprint of various nations...

The Russian Government this week granted Rosneft and Gazprom five new licenses to oil and gas fields in the Kara Sea and Barents Sea.

With the Tuesday lifting of the six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska officials say it's also time to lift a suspension on shallow-water drilling in Arctic waters.

Mineral exploration firms will likely spend $280 million in Nunavut this year.

The activity level in the Norwegian petroleum industry is still high. Exploration activity has the last few years increased substantially and several new discoveries are being made, says Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Riis-Johansen.

Royal Dutch Shell has applied for a permit to drill in the shallow waters of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea next year and unveiled plans for an improved oil spill response system for the Arctic.