Building on the success of the First Inter-Polar Conference, the second edition is being planned for September 3-5, 2025, in ICIMOD premises in Kathmandu, Nepal, and jointly organized by the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, ICIMOD, and the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) in collaboration with the following institutions: the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and the UArctic Law Thematic Network.

The European Commission in cooperation with the Municipality of Kittilä and the Regional Council of Lapland will organise the EU Arctic Forum and Indigenous Peoples’ Dialogue in Kittilä, Finland, on 26-27 June 2025.

A broad range of Arctic stakeholders representing governments, international organisations, civil society, industry, research, indigenous and local communities will feed into the discussions. Youth perspectives will feature prominently throughout the event.

The International Symposium on Polar Sciences (ISPS) is annually organized by Korea Polar Research Institute since 1988. The purpose of International Symposium on Polar Sciences (ISPS) is to bring polar scientists together to provide an international forum for exchanging and sharing their cutting-edge ideas and research results.

Wednesday 16 July 2025

Location Incheon, Republic of Korea

For further information: https://eng.kopri.re.kr/eng/html/sym/050101.html

The International Glaciological Society will hold an International Symposium on ‘Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers’ in 2025. The symposium will be hosted by the Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK, on 21-25th July 2025.

The aim of this symposium is to bring together scientists working on both modern and palaeo-ice streams/outlet glaciers, along with those using numerical modelling, in order to facilitate greater interaction and the cross-pollination of ideas, data and theoretical insight on one of glaciology’s most important topics.

Uno studio coordinato dall’Istituto di scienze polari del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, con la partecipazione dell’Università Sapienza e dell’istituto Sintef Ocean, ha rilevato la presenza di farmaci e prodotti per la cura personale nelle acque del fiordo artico Kongsfjorden, alle isole Svalbard. Sul lungo periodo sono a rischio di sopravvivenza gli organismi acquatici che vivono in questo peculiare ecosistema marino. I risultati sono stati pubblicati su Science of The Total Environment

Svalbard as an Arctic hotspot for climate change and international cooperation. Conference 28-29 October 2025 at Quality Hotel Expo, Fornebu (Oslo).

Il fenomeno dell’Arctic greening consiste nell’espansione di vegetazione terrestre al circolo polare artico in un ambiente precedentemente coperto da neve o ghiacci e rappresenta una delle risposte più rilevanti degli ecosistemi terrestri al cambiamento climatico. Uno studio internazionale, coordinato dal Cnr-Isp e svolto in collaborazione con Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research e Joint Research Center-Eni-Cnr, fornisce dati scientifici su come questo processo si sia evoluto nel corso del XX secolo.

Arctic PASSION Online Seminar & Dialogue “Integrated Fire Risk Management - An introduction to INFRA as a new service by the Arctic PASSION project”, 12 February 12 PM GMT

The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, accompanied by the proclamation of the 21st March of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting in 2025. This is an opportunity to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers, snow and ice in the climate system and the hydrological cycle, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the impending changes in the Earth’s cryosphere.

Il 20 gennaio, SIOS ha pubblicato il suo 7° rapporto sullo Stato delle Scienze Ambientali alle Svalbard: il SESSreport.

Il report, a cui hanno partecipato autori provenienti da 70 istituzioni internazionali, è articolato in 12 capitoli che riportano studi sui processi ambientali nel suolo, nell’oceano, nella tundra e nell’atmosfera. Quest'anno è forte la presenza italiana, con autori principali provenienti, dall’ Università di Firenze, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn , dal CNR ISP e dall’ OGS.

I temi trattati nel rapporto di quest'anno includono: