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Reindeer in Lapland have a number of important jobs this time of year – including helping the climate. By gobbling up shrubs, they help increase the reflectivity of snow and ice.

On 14 December 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a seminar “Latvia in the Arctic II”, convened by Latvia as a country presiding over the Nordic…

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><strong>The varied performance of genetic circuits based on host environment, termed as the &lsquo;chassis effect,&rsquo; creates uncertainty in synthetic biology applications. However, the underlying factors governing this effect are not clearly understood. Researchers from Norway and the United Kingdom have now demonstrated that genetic inverter circuit performance was directly related to physiological attributes, and not phylogenomic relatedness, in six engineered Gammaproteobacteria species. Their findings establish ...

Experts gathered in Kathmandu for the first-ever Inter-Polar Conference, organized jointly by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. They called for regional cooperation and sharing of insights between the Arctic and the Hindu Kush Himalayas, as both regions are facing temperature rise and the thawing of the cryosphere. The conference aims to bridge the knowledge gap and find sustainable solutions to the common challenges brought about by climate change in these extreme regions.

With formal co-operation with Russia on hold since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, experts say the concept of the Arctic Council is "in tatters."