Greenlanders Miki Siegstad (on the left) and Peter Berthelsen are about to embark on their third seasons as chefs on the cruise ship Ultramarine, the first cruise ship to employ local Inuit chefs. Photo: Stephen Des Roches Musk ox, reindeer and soon, perhaps, seal are...
A Chinese supertrawler fishing for krill in the Southern Ocean in the presence of whales. A practice that not only represents direct competition for food for whales, penguins and seals, but can also lead to fatal ship strikes. Photo: Screenshot Sea Shepherd Global...
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...
Fin whales are the second largest whales after blue whales. With the beginning of industrial whaling in the 20th century, they became the most hunted whales in the world. (Photo: Julia Hager) Whaling in the 20th century wiped out 99 percent of the...
Whale bones next to the former whaler’s pier in Grytviken. On South Georgia, whale bones are still shattered along the coast, relatively well preserved because of the low temperatures. However, rising temperatures due to climate change could destroy the DNA in...