21 Mar: Angus King, US Senator from
Maine, takes part in a US Navy excursion to the Arctic Ocean. (AP / Portland
Press Herald)
21 Mar: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean
reaches its maximum extent for the
year, at 14.9 million square km. (Danish
Meteorological Institute)
31 Mar: Kuupik Kleist, longtime leader of Greenlandic
political party Inuit Ataqatigiit, steps down. (Arctic
Journal)
31 Mar: Despite the decline in government relations
between NATO member Norway and Russia as the
Ukraine conflict continues, Statoil chief Helge Lund
and Rosneft chief Igor Sechin meet in Norway to discuss expanded cooperation between their companies. (Barents Observer)
26 Mar: A flurry of Russian fighter jets
near the Finnish border causes alarm
for some border residents in Finland.
(Barents Observer)
26 Mar: An Arctic Council Senior Arctic
Officials’ meeting takes place in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.
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24 Mar: Other G8 leaders cancel
a planned summit in Sochi in
favor of a G7 without Russia in
Brussels. (The Hill)
25 Mar: Norway announces it will suspend all
bilateral military activities with Russia. (Barents Observer)
25 Mar: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
begins a three-day visit to Greenland to examine the effects of climate change. (Shanghai Daily)
28 Mar: Former Prime
Minister of Norway Jens
Stoltenberg is named as
the next Secretary General
of NATO. (BBC)
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27 Mar: The Council of Canadian Academies releases a report stating that “people in Nunavut
have the highest food insecurity rate for any indigenous population in a developed country at
68 percent.” (Alaska Dispatch)
27 Mar: A campaign of “sealfies” on
Twitter begins, in protest of a major
donation to the anti-sealing Humane
Society of the United States. The donated funds were generated by Ellen
Degeneres’s wildly popular Oscar
selfie. (Globe & Mail)
27 Mar: A new Arctic information and
analytical center opens in Arkhangelsk, Russia. (Barents Observer)
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