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Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme - an Arctic Council Working Group
"providing reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment, and providing scientific advice on actions to be taken in order to support Arctic governments in their efforts to take remedial and preventive actions relating to contaminants and adverse effects of climate change"
Latest Reports
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Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost. Summary for Policy-makers
AMAP, 2017. Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost. Summary for Policy-makers. This document presents the policy-relevant findings of the AMAP 2017 assessments of snow, water, ice and permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA)
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Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern. Summary for Policy-makers
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Influence of Climate Change on Transport, Levels, and Effects of Contaminants in Northern Areas – Part 2
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Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA) - Barents Area Overview report
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Featured Maps & Graphics
Featured Projects
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Maps and Graphics Database
The AMAP Maps and Graphics Database provides access to graphics files and GIS datasets associated with maps and graphical products that appear in AMAP reports, etc. Several hundred files are available and this resource is regularly being added to.
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Mercury Emissions
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Landing Page Photo 1
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Landing Page Photo 2
News & Updates
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China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice' (BBC)
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'Shocking' levels of PCB chemicals in UK killer whale Lulu (BBC)
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The thawing Arctic threatens an environmental catastrophe (Economist)
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Scientists keep upping their projections for how much the oceans will rise this century (Washington Post)
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Earth could break through a major climate threshold in the next 15 years, scientists warn
Featured Events
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Jun
27
SAON Board Meeting
Frascati, Rome, Italy,
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Jun
29
AMAP SLCP Expert Group Meeting
Victoria, Canada
June
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Jun08
Ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Science (ICASSS IX)
Umeå, Sweden
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Jun18
16th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment in 2017 (ICCE 2017)
Oslo, Norway
September
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Sep18
PAME Working Group Meeting (PAME II-2017)
Helsinki, Finland
