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  • The next SAO meeting is to take place in Tórshavn
    In October, the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council will meet for their fall session, this time in Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands. The meeting will be an important step in the preparations for the Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland in May 2011, which will mark the ending of the Danish Chairmanship and the starting point for Sweden as Chair of the Arctic Council.
  • Russian Emergency Response Exercise
    EXERCISE--EXERCISE-- The emergency response exercise "Exercise Arctic 2010", sponsored by the Arctic Council Working Group EPPR, took place at the Nerpa Shipyard near Murmansk, in the Russian Federation, on 28-29 July.
  • Biodiversity Trends: The Polar Bear
    ‘Arctic Biodiversity Trends – 2010: Selected Indicators of Change’, the Arctic Council/CAFF report synthesizing scientific findings on the status and trends for selected biodiversity in the Arctic, was launched earlier this year. It has one chapter on Polar Bears, and the findings from this chapter are summarized below.
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