Canada will sign an agreement today with the governments of Greenland and Nunavut to protect polar bear populations in their overlapping regions.

ARKHANGELSK: This sailing season’s last shipments of pipes for the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta pipeline on the Yamal peninsula are being loaded on vessels in the Arkhangelsk Commercial Port.

Arctic expert David Barber, who is Canada’s Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, says that the multiyear Arctic Ocean ice covering has disappeared, making it easier in the near future to open and develop Arctic shipping routes.

The EU is an Arctic entity, EU Commission representative Fernando Garces highlighted in a seminar last week. He also reiterated the Commission’s desire for permanent observer status in the Arctic Council.

Despite the fact that The National Post has reported that a subcommittee voted against an incentive package to build the proposed Mackenzie pipeline, others who are involved with the project are claiming that everything is status quo and no final decision has been made.

An estimated 2,6 tons of oil leaked out from the Varandey pipeline at Yuzhnoye-Khylchuyu on October 21th.

According to a recent study, approximately 50 million years ago while the Arctic had a short period of sweltering heat, palms not only existed, but flourished in the region. The discovery may indicate that there are significant gaps in the scientific knowledge and understanding of current climate changes.

Russian oil major Rosneft want reduced tax on investments for drilling in the Arctic.

New research conducted by scientists at both poles shows that the sea level will most likely rise by at least a meter due to the melting of and “dynamic changes” in the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets. And because of this rise, there is a potential threat to coastal cities worldwide within the next century. And Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is letting people know about the possible threat.

New research has uncovered a significant clue in solving one of the lingering mysteries in climate change: what is causing the significant increase in Arctic tundra productivity detected by satellites since the early 1980s?