Cairn Energy has yet again failed to find oil or gas at its wells in Greenland. The Scottish exploration company’s shares fell one percent on the announcement that another two dry wells are to be plugged and abandoned. Read the full story

Iceland’s foreign minister this morning described Canadian fears that Huang Nubo’s hoped-for land purchase in Iceland is part of a wider Chinese plan to take the country over, as ‘ridiculous’. Read the full story

British drilling firm Cairn Energy has seen its share prices increase after finally finding evidence of oil in one of its controversial Greenland wells. Read the full story

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, gave a keynote speech on the future of the Arctic at a conference in Brussels yesterday. Read the full story

The Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, invited Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, to a conference on Arctic shipping and other affairs of the high north. The conference started yesterday and is mainly about the new opportunities and responsibilities that will come with melting sea ice. Read the full story

The Greenland government has published oil spill contingency plans for controversial drilling firm Cairn Energy after repeated calls for such action from environmental activists. Read the full story

British oil and gas explorer Cairn Energy has announced that it failed to find oil at one of its controversial wells off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story

President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson of Iceland is currently in Alaska to give a speech at the opening of an international conference. The conference is on the importance of careful planning for the future shipping lanes slowly being created by melting Arctic ice. Read the full story

A series of military exercises under the name North Viking 2011 began in Iceland today and will continue until next Friday. Read the full story

Norway has called on Canada to settle its disputes with Russia in an attempt to decrease tensions over sovereignty in the Far North. The recommendation has come after a maritime delimitation was signed by Russia and Norway this week, ending a 40-year disagreement between the two nations and allowing for new trade routes and the exploration of natural resources. Read the full story