The Lie We Live is a powerful short video (see below) created by Spencer Cathcart that exposes the truth about our corrupt world and what humanity has become… Listen carefully! If everyone would hear every word in this video and then act … Continue reading
Magdalena bay in Svalbard/Spitzbergen is certainly one of the most breathtaking alpine mountains and glaciers landscape within the Arctic world! Arctic photographer and specialist Patrick Reader has been visiting this spot a few times. Last September 2014, he did some astonishing … Continue reading
The new edition of the federal government’s map of Canada presented a few days ago will likely surprise many of us by showing more sea ice over the Arctic Ocean. This version may be very confusing for the public, young … Continue reading
I wanted to put forward this great and educative project named “DAREWIN” which aim to encounter, communicate and collect video and audio footage of wild cetacean behavior. The team is composed of well-known Belgian freediver Fred Buyle, French engineer Fabrice Schnöller and … Continue reading
ARCTIC STATES, a three-day symposium held between April 17-19, 2015 at the US University of Virginia School of Architecture, brings together an international consortium of leading designers and colleagues from allied disciplines to posit the role of design in the rapidly transforming … Continue reading
The 7th International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM VII) will be held 2nd-5th June 2015, in Trondheim, Norway. ICAM VII is hosted by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), and will be held at Britannia Hotel in the city center … Continue reading
The Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 (ASSW) is the annual gathering of the international organizations engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research. It will be held in Toyama, Japan on April 23-30, 2015 The purpose of the summit is to provide … Continue reading
According to the January 2015 report by NOAA Climate.gov “Old ice in Arctic vanishingly rare”: …Decades ago, the majority of the Arctic’s winter ice pack was made up of thick, perennial ice. Today, very old ice is extremely rare… The … Continue reading
The Arctic Frontiers 2015 conference on climate and energy will be held in Tromso, Norway between the 18th till 23 January 2015! “… The 9th Arctic Frontiers conference will be held in Tromsø, Norway, with the title: Climate and Energy, from … Continue reading
Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert (on the left of the below picture) and Antarctic “zero emission” station “Princess Elisabeth” are under the focus of close media scrutiny! Tv programme “Devoir d’enquête” of Belgian Tv station RTBF has done a journalistic … Continue reading
Several cameras positioned in the icy tundra around the Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba will give you the incredible and unique chance to view live white bears in their habitat at this automn period of the year! The cameras are live between … Continue reading
The Arctic Symposium 2014 organized on October 14-15, 2014 by the International Polar Foundation will be held in the capital of Belgium, Brussels at the Residence Palace in the EU area Schuman. The theme of this symposium is on “The Arctic, its peoples, and its economies”. … Continue reading
The below pictures of a white-cream enormous & elegant male “Teddy Bear” (Ursus maritimus) were taken during the Arctic autumn 2014 in front of Smithbreen glacier in Raudfjorden, North of the beautiful archipelago of Svalbard (79° 40′ N 11° 30′ … Continue reading
Researchers at the US University of Washington studying the ice-free Beaufort Arctic Sea in 2012 have published recently their conclusions in the Geophysical Research Letters that : “… Future scenarios for reduced seasonal sea ice cover in the Arctic suggest that larger waves … Continue reading
WWF Canada has released new research mapping a range of oil spill scenarios in the Canadian Arctic Beaufort Sea, which is home to an incredibly rich diversity of species (Polar bears, walrusses, Arctic birds…) and key to the culture and … Continue reading
The Maritime & Arctic Security & Safety Conference (MASS14) will be held in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada on the 28-30 October 2014. This year’s theme is “Maritime and Arctic Innovation“. “…With a focus on Economic Development, Security and Public Safety, … Continue reading
Over the course of centuries, Arctic indigenous peoples have navigated on sea, ice and trundra land using cultural knowledge of trails and place names that was passed down through the generations. These trails were used mainly for hunting, fishing, trading and maintaining … Continue reading
Alarming outbreak of syphilis has been reported by several Nunavut (North of Canada, Arctic) newspapers on 5th of June 2014. Nunatsiaq online underlines that: “… Health Minister Monica Ell told Nunavut Territory’s legislative assembly on June 4, 2014: “Nunavut is experiencing an … Continue reading
Garcia Yachting below official video is putting forward their new beautiful exploration sailing boat, the Garcia Exploration 45. It’s an aluminium boat of 13,98 meters with a draft of 1,05 meters designed for high latitudes and tropical waters… Well-known skipper Jimmy Cornell has … Continue reading
Passionated by the Arctic, Patrick Reader shares with the so called “les Amis de la Nature” (Friends of Nature) of Belgian councils of Schaerbeek and Evere (Brussels) his emotions and experience of this wonderful North region in their monthly newspaper of month … Continue reading
The media are now reffering again to this huge project of considering building a high-speed train that would connect China (Pekin) with Canada (Vancouver) via the Arctic regions of Siberia and Alaska. This “China-Russia-Canada-America line” would run for +– 8.000 miles … Continue reading
Sa maman m’a contacté pour m’indiquer à quel point elle était super fière de savoir que son fiston Mateo est fasciné par les animaux et les glaces du Grand Nord. Fin mars 2014, ce garçon de 8 ans a présenté … Continue reading
The international Arctic Change 2014 conference which will be held end of year in Ottawa – Canada on 8 to 12 December, 2014 aims to stimulate discussion and foster collaborations among people with a vested interest in the Arctic and … Continue reading
Be ready to follow this April, May and June 2014 what could be a new Arctic world record by Belgian Polar explorer Dixie Dansercoer (pictures here below)! Dixie and his expedition partner Eric McNair-Landry have set the goal to complete more than … Continue reading
Since February 27, 2014 and in honour of International Polar Bear Day, one can now pay a virtual visit via Google Street View to white Arctic bears on the wonderful tundra lanscape of remote town of Churchill in Northern Manitoba … Continue reading
According to findings by experts from the University of British Columbia presented on February 13, 2014 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference (AAAS), the potential deadly parasite called “Toxoplasma gondii” (can cause brain disease, blindness…) has been found … Continue reading
You will love this new project coming from Hong Kong, China! “Inspire Me With” is a web project launched in 3 languages (French, English & Chinese) by Sasha O and Nathalie Briand-Hickling. “Inspire Me With” invite artists, photographers, writers and people who do … Continue reading
The International Glaciological Society will hold an International Symposium on Sea Ice in a Changing Environment in 2014. This Symposium will be held in Hobart, Australia from 10 to 14 March 2014. Several topics will be part of the Symposium … Continue reading
Helen Roos of Roos-Remillard Consulting Services is the principle researcher of a report of 144p. published in November 2013 on Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Nunavut, North of Canada. This report entitled “Service and Capacity Review For Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Human … Continue reading
The 4th European Marine Board will host on the 12 March 2014 in Brussels – Belgium a Forum on the Arctic under the theme “Arctic 2050, towards ecosystem-based management in a changing Arctic Ocean”. The 4th European Marine Board Forum … Continue reading
The 44th Annual International Arctic Workshop will be held 15-16 March 2014 on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA under the theme: Arctic new normal – shifting environmental baselines over decades to millennia and comparisons with the … Continue reading
CBC News North reported on Januray 10, 2014 that 45 people among a population of +- 35.591 died by suicide in Nunavut (North of Canada) in 2013 which is the highest number recorded for any given year since the territory’s creation … Continue reading
NASA and US Geological Survey have indicated on December 9, 2013 that the coldest place on Earth (- 93, 2° Celsius (135,8° Fahrenheit)) was set on August 10, 2010 near a high ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, two summits on the ice sheet … Continue reading
According to a new report released on the 12th December 2013 by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): “… Many regions and components of the Arctic environment were closer to their long-term averages, but the effects of a persistent warming … Continue reading
The Belgian post Bpost has issued a special stamp for registered letters with a beautiful & elegant a beautiful and elegant Arctic Tern ! En fait, vous ne le savez peut être pas, son record en distance par an est porté à tout … Continue reading
Well-known and friendly Belgian polar explorer Dixie Dansercoer is back for a breathtaking and unique Arctic expedition which will be held in April 2014. Dixie and Eric McNair-Landry have set the goal to complete more than 5000 kilometres in a circumnavigation of the … Continue reading
The British University College of London’s Institute of Ophthalmology has led with their collegues of the Arctic University of Tromso in Norway a research on Arctic reindeers’ eyes. The below video indicates their eyes is changing colors with the season, shifting … Continue reading
The Mars Society is seeking six volunteers to participate as members of the crew of the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) during an extended simulation of human Mars exploration operations on Devon Island in northern Canada (August 2014 through July 2015). … Continue reading
The Guardian is reporting on the 4th of November 2013 ” … A polar bear attack in Canada that left two people injured has brought new warnings from scientists of a dangerous rise in human-bear encounters in a warming Arctic. The friends … Continue reading
The 9th ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM2013) will be held from 9 to 13 December 2013 at The World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia – Canada and will welcome the participation of researchers, students, policy and decision makers, representatives of government … Continue reading
