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Within the Arctic community, there are numerous projects examining a wide range of physical, biological and social research topics. The list of projects is vast and therefore it is difficult to present each project individually. However, in the following three sections Arctic Portal Projects, Other Arctic Projects and Arctic project databases, a more comprehensive list of Arctic projects is available. |
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In the recent years, the world’s attention has turned to the Arctic, not least because of its vast energy resources. Due to the climate change and its significant impact to the Arctic environment resources that have long been unreachable are becoming feasible for exploitation. The Arctic Energy Portal aims at providing a comprehensive information gateway to the Arctic energy projects, new developments and controversies concerning the resource exploitation.
The Arctic Portals Climate Change Portal is intended to give individuals access to material according to each ones need in connection to climate change. This will consist of recent news articles, scientific reports and other relevant material. Climate Change or Global Warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near surface air and oceans since the mid 20th century. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that increasing greenhouse gas concentration resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation are the biggest contributors to global warming.
The International Directory of Arctic Social Scientists (IDASS) is an international project where the aim is to provide participants with an online, updatable, searchable database of the organizations and individuals conducting social science research in the Arctic. IDASS establishes a tool to aid in creating interdisciplinary and/or multi-national research teams. The IDASS represents a significant contribution by providing a mechanism to involve several disciplinary perspectives, transcend national research priorities, and expand the participation of indigenous peoples in Arctic social science research.
This database contains information on approximately 35 000 documentary films from the Barents region, mainly from Murmansk Oblast, Arkhangelsk region and Finnish Lapland. Information in database is mainly in English, but Authors and Orignal Titles are mentioned also in Russian and in Finnish accordingly. Detailed information with scene by scene description and a preview is available from more than 1000 digitised films. Films are from the collections of TV Murman, TV Pomorye Archangelsk and YLE Finland. The digitised films can be viewed at the 
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