Although the end of winter and Longyearbyen’s transition from a snowy wonderland to a full-blown mud fest is something not many locals or visitors look forward to, this year it came with a treat – the opening of A Litter Bit of Heaven: Arctic Marine Litter Exhibition, a creative spin-off…
The opportunity to share with a wider audience what and what for the forScience team actually does in the Arctic came in January 2024, during the kick-off meeting of project ICEBERG. It was then that we were first told just how well our work fits with the Atlantic & Arctic…
Plastic pollution is an increasingly serious problem in the Arctic, where it exerts a damaging effect on the ecosystem already struggling under climate change. Luckily, it’s not only the amount of mismanaged plastic waste that has been on the rise over the last few decades. It’s also the amount of…
They’re everywhere. From carpets beneath our feet, through contact lenses in our eyes, to planes above our heads. Synthetic materials, although synthetic, have become perfectly natural, and the growing piles of plastic waste are just another element of our world. But discarded plastic accumulates not only in areas with thousands…
Seas and oceans have served humanity as rubbish dumps for hundreds of years, but initially it wasn’t much of a problem. As recently as at the end of the 18th century, there were merely 1.5 billion of us and the majority of rubbish we generated was made of natural materials,…
Plastic is such an obvious element of today’s world that hardly anyone wonders what it actually is and why the negative consequences of its overuse can now be felt even in the most remote corners of the globe. Let us therefore shed some much needed light on the issue. Plastic…