The MIKON flagship program in the Fram Centre is using both social and environmental sciences to examine how High North industrial development will affect the natural world, regional societies like the Sami and economic activity.
Increased activity in the Russian Arctic push forward the need for better cooperation between Russian and Norwegian ports to meet the growth in cargo traffic, is the conclusion in a new report on marine traffic in the north.
Yesterday acting Norwegian chargé d’affaires to Russland Bård Svendsen was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to be given an official complaint against the detention of a Russian fishing trawler outside Svalbard in July.
Esrange space centre near Kiruna in northern Sweden doesn’t want miners walking around in the area where rockets fell back to earth from an altitude of 250 kilometer.
