Collaboration between universities spiced with industrial contributions awaits students at new course on environmental impacts of Arctic mineral resources exploitation (course number 11830).

252 researchers have gathered knowledge of fauna and flora in the Arctic to be published in a new report this autumn. Already now the report creates debate on the action power of the Arctic Council.

Several of the key species from the intertidal zone has their northern limit in the transition from sub-arctic to high-arctic climate. It is believed, therefore, that the tidal society, in which the blue mussel resides, is particularly sensitive to changes in air temperature and ice extension, and therefore functions as a kind of indicator habitat to quantify potential ecological effects of climatic variation in time and space.