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A volcanic eruption has started in Iceland underneath the glacier Vatnajökull on Saturday around 7 PM. The volcano, called "Grímsvötn" is spewing large amounts of ash up to 11 kilometers high (35 thousand feet) up into the air.
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The Arctic Council Nuuk Ministerial Meeting participants held a press conference at the end of the meeting, where they expressed their satisfaction with the results of the meeting.
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The foreign Ministers of the Arctic countries and leaders of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples witnessed a historical moment today at the Nuuk Ministerial Meeting, when the first legally binding agreement established under the auspices of the Arctic Council was signed.
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A new assessment of the Arctic's biodiversity reports a 26% decline in species populations in the High Arctic. The ASTI includes almost 1,000 datasets on Arctic species population trends, including representation from 35% of all known vertebrate species found in the Arctic.
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Arctic biodiversity is under growing pressure from both climate change and resource development, requiring both managers and users to have access to more complete information to help them make timely and informed conservation and adaptation decisions.
- Announcement of opportunity – SCAR Antarctic Science Fellowships 2011 – 2012 and COMNAP Antarctic Research Fellowship
- ICASS VII – 7th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences: “Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social Sciences beyond the International Polar Year”
- The 6th NRF Open Assembly to be held in Hveragerði, Iceland
- When the ice disappears – Denmark as a major Arctic power