Polar Areas

“I am pleased that the Secretariat of the Arctic Council will be located in Tromsø. This will facilitate the Council’s work and consolidate Tromsø’s position as a centre for Arctic issues, both in Norway and internationally,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Read more

Although at first glance polar explorer Børge Ousland and shipping magnate Felix Tschudi appear to be on radically different walks of life, they are united by several factors, most importantly are...

• Polar Exhibition in Guangzhou
• Børge Ousland and Felix Tschudi in Shanghai

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