With global warming advancing much faster than earlier assumed, the world is getting dangerously close to crossing several climate tipping points. Most of them are associated with the polar regions, and each will have severe global consequences, impacting the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

National and university coordinators are meeting at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway campus in Alta to discuss logistics, challenges, and updates to north2north.

The PEEX Arctic-Boreal Hub Newsletter issue #24 is now available.

The IAU 2023 Intercultural Conference will take place from 25-27 November 2023 at Qatar University in Doha. The conference will explore how universities around the world promote and support intercultural learning and dialogue, the impact geopolitics is having on this goal, and the broader implications it has for our society.

Anastasia Gorlenko from Technical University of Denmark completed a 2-week PhD course in Hyytiälä, Finland, as part of the north2north staff mobility at the University of Helsinki. You can read more about her experience from here. 

Professor Timo Jokela, UArctic Chair in Arctic Art, Design and Culture, was awarded the J.V. Snellman Medal for his extensive life's work for the North.

The award ceremony will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, 3-9 September 2023.

Word Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) in collaboration with the local host Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki organized  a “Towards Global Earth Observatory workshop” on 8-10 May 2023 at the Stations Measuring Ecosystem and At...

University of Helsinki and Salla Municipality invited HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco to visit the Station for Measuring Ecosystem and Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR I) in Värriö, Finland, on 6 June 2023.

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet has the potential to increase global sea levels by tens of centimeters during this century. The exact amount depends on the surface melting which increases with global warming, and on the calving of icebergs where huge glaciers drain the interior icesheet.

We live in Longyearbyen, Svalbard’s main settlement, located in a narrow valley with steep slopes.

The 8th IPTRN conference and community tour will take place in Arctic Sweden from 5-9 June 2024. 

Nor-Shipping conference took place from June 6-10 in Lillestrøm, Norway. UArctic President Lars Kullerud presented at the 1st Ocean Campus Conference.

Université Laval is receiving $19 million from the Government of Canada to fund the new pavilion that will bring the campus’s international studies researchers and academics together under one roof.

The Arctic REIHN tabletop exercise 1 (TTX 1) was conducted 26 April 2023 in Oslo, Norway by Norwegian Coastal Administration, The Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Nord University, Danish Emergency Management Agency, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority.