Although there are those who have warned that increased activity and unresolved boundaries in the Arctic would raise tensions, developments in the region are bearing witness to just the opposite. Read more
Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and former US Vice President Al Gore presented a report at the climate summit in Copenhagen, which showed that snow and ice are melting at an alarming rate. Read more
China opened its first arctic scientific research station, the Yellow River Station, in Ny-Ålesund 28 July 2004. China thus became the eighth country to establish an arctic research station on Norway's Spitzbergen Archipelago. Read more