A research team from the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISP) and the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) detected various chemicals from personal care products in the snow on...
Plastic pollution is omnipresent on many of Svalbard’s beaches. (Photo: Julia Hager) Along with climate change, environmental pollution is one of the most pressing problems in the Arctic and Antarctic. For some years now, research has increasingly focussed on...
The different orca groups in the North Atlantic have very different preferences when it comes to diet. Their risk of taking in pollutants is strongly dependent on their preferred prey. Figure: Remili et al. 2023 Orcas are exposed to a variety of pollutants in their...
Carolyn Hamman, University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student and co-author of the study, with a saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) caught during field work with fish traps in Prudhoe Bay. Photo: Kyle Gatt Something that should go without saying is now considered very...
Contaminants of emerging concern are chemicals that have been found in the environment but whose effect has yet to be fully understood. In Antarctica they are primarily released through research and tourism activities (Photo: Julia Hager) Long a concern elsewhere,...