Bowhead whales are among the animals in the study that were found to be contaminated with persistent organic compounds. Photo: Heiner Kubny Unlike pollution with plastics or exhaust gases, there is less public awareness of the contamination of the environment with...
Disturbing the sound of silence (Photo: Sovcomflot) As workplaces, ships must live up to tight regulations for how much noise their crews are exposed to. One key way of doing this is the guidelines, adopted in 2012 by the IMO, the UN agency that sorts out the minutiae...
Residents of Nunavut’s largest city must continue to show patience when it comes to their drinking water supply. Image: Anick Marie via Wiki Commons CC SA 4.0 For months, the residents of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, in Arctic Canada, have been suffering...
Bear Island (or Bjørnøya) is a small island approximately half way between Longyearbyen and Tromsø. The island is considered a part of the Svalbard archipelago and is 178 km2 in size. Its highest point, Miseryfjellet lies 536 metres above sea level. Despite the name,...
Orcas are the top predators in the world’s oceans. These intelligent and adaptable marine mammals have adapted to a wide range of food sources and locations. Animals are also on the hunt in the Arctic every year, be it for fish, whales or seals. But the...
