Jammertest is an open-air hacking festival set on Andoya island
| | LONDON, UK, 9 September 2026 (BBC) - Hosted annually by the Norwegian authorities, Jammertest is an open-air hacking festival set on remote Andoya island 300km north of the Arctic Circle. Its aim is simple but mind-bending: to use satellite signals to mess with time itself – and see if receivers in everything from clocks to drones can withstand the pressure. At the heart of this experiment is a technology that runs much of our modern digital world: Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). We tend to think of satellite networks such as GPS as tools for navigation. Yet they also do something else just as important: they transmit ultra-accurate time. |
Iceland condemns Trump’s post showing island under American flag
| | LONDON, UK, 9 September 2026 (CNBC) - Iceland summoned the U.S. ambassador after Trump posted a map showing Iceland under the American flag. Reykjavik said the image was unacceptable, while reaffirming its support for Greenland amid Trump’s annexation threats. Denmark and Mexico also objected, underscoring the diplomatic backlash to Trump’s territorial ambitions. |
Denmark’s energy islands to become regional game changers
| | MADRID, Spain, 9 September 2026 (REM) - Offshore wind is becoming the backbone of Denmark’s clean energy future. The country plans to establish an artificial island in the North Sea with an initial capacity of 3GW and another island-based hub at Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. |
Lawsuit challenges Mariana Islands deep-sea mining lease sale
| | HONOLULU, Hawaii, 8 September 2026 (EJ) - Conservation and community groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s plan to kick-start deep-sea mining off the coast of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam in the western Pacific. The lawsuit contests the National Marine Fisheries Service’s conclusion that the deep-sea mining lease sale is unlikely to adversely affect imperiled species like humpback whales and giant manta rays. |
What 1.5°C overshoot means for small islands
| | CASTRIES, St Lucia, 8 September 2026 (IPS) - The world is now expected to breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit that small island states have spent years defending as a threshold for survival. For people in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Ocean, the consequences will not begin only when islands disappear beneath the sea. They include saltwater intrusion into freshwater supplies and agricultural land, coral reef loss, more damaging coastal flooding and mounting pressure on already limited resources for recovery and adaptation. |
Japan's Northern Territories: The four islands explained
| | TOKYO, Japan, 8 September 2026 (JF) - The Northern Territories, which Russian President Vladimir Putin recently visited for the first time, comprise four islands stretching northeast of Hokkaido: Habomai, Shikotan, Kunashiri, and Etorofu. They are inherently Japanese territory, prized for their rich fishing grounds and scenic volcanic landscapes. Yet for more than 80 years since 1945, they have remained under unlawful Soviet, and later Russian, occupation. |
|
 |
CBD |
 | | COP16 21 Oct-1 Nov, 2024, Cali, Colombia |
|
UNFCCC |
| | COP29 11-22 November, 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan |
|
ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS II conference, 20-23 January 2025, Nuuk, Greenland |
|
JICAS |
| | Islands And Island Studies conference 3-7 June, 2025, Jersey, Channel Islands |
|
UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 9-13 June, 2025, Nice, France |
|
UPEI |
| | 3rd international conference on SIS and SNIJs 16-20 June, 2025, Charlottetown, PEI |
|
ARCTIC COUNCIL |
| | UArctic Congress 26-29 May 2026, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
|
SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference 25-28 June, 2026, Tacloban City, Leyte Islands, Philippines |
|
WORLD ISLANDS FAIR |
| | The world’s first international event themed around islands 5 Sept-4 Nov, 2026, Yeosu, South Korea |
|
SPREP |
| | 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, 7–11 September 2026, Noumea, New Caledonia |
|
ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 14th Anatomy of Islands symposium 15-17 Oct, 2026, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
|
SOCIETY OF ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | 5th Island Biology conference 2-6 November, 2026, Atami City, Japan |
|
IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 27-29 Jan, 2027, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
|
ISISA |
| | 21st Islands of the Word Conference 6-10 June, 2027, Willemstad, Curacao |
|
