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A huge rift has been discovered in the West Antarctica icesheet, forming a new gigantic iceberg.
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What happens when the vast amounts of carbon in Arctic soils are released to the atmosphere? This is the central question fieldresearchers, operators of long term observatories and modellers from 18 partner institutions in the EU intend to answer with the PAGE21 project.
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Scandinavian Resources have announced a major find of gold and copper in Finnmark, Norway.
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Denmark is looking to pave the way for China to the Arctic Council. Denmark wants China to become a permanent observer state in the organization.
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Stockholm University has two vacancies for PhD students for the PAGE 21 project. Both positions are in Physical Geography at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology.
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The University of the Arctic has released a statement following the decision by the government of Canada to cut its funding.
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Russia will spend 1,8 billion Euros on four state of the art icebreakers.
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The cod wars were political disputes between the governments of Iceland and Britain over fisheries management in the Icelandic maritime waters. The disputes were numerous between the years 1948 and 1976 and are called the Cod wars. The cod wars were numerous; they can be counted as three or even four.
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Iceland and Russia have signed a cooperation agenda regarding geothermal energy.
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In the decade following the adoption of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, fishing on the high seas became a major international problem.
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Coastal states have their maritime zones where they have exclusive access to all resources. The map on the right shows these zones.
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The relationship between the physical effects of climate change and effects on the ecosystem is complex. It is impossible to tell what climate change will to do biological resources in the Arctic.
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The government of Russia has finalized a state program for oil and gas exploration. The project is worth around 225-250 billion USD, the government putting in around 40 billion USD.
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The civilizations of northern Europe commercialized fishing, taking cod and herring in the seas off Norway and European Russia. During the past and recent years the Arctic and the Sub-Arctic was and will be a valuable food production area and has supplied over the years valuable nutrition for the south.
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Five species fill up just over 50 percent of the fisheries in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
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