At present, the Australian Antarctic Division has three active stations on the continent and one on the sub-Antarctic island of Macquarie. Pictured here is Casey station (Photo: Peter Cummings, Australian Antarctic Program). A study conducted near an Australian...
The sign of the East Greenlandic municipality of Ittoqqotoormiit not only welcomes visitors. Unwanted guests like PFAS are now also finding their way into town and residents, literally speaking. (Photo: Michael Wenger) The polyfluoroalkly substances (PFAS) known from...
Currently, knowledge on pollution of polar regions by chemical pollutants is still about as foggy as this Greenlandic settlement. But the “Berlin Statement” is intended to shed light on the murkiness. Image: Dr Michael Wenger Along with climate change,...
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...
