A UAF graduate student has found microplastics in the stomachs of spotted seals harvested in the Bering Strait region.

Scientists have discovered microplastics in rainwater and snow, in remote parts of Russia. The researchers first started looking into the pollution in 2020, and they have determined that the small fibers were carried to the remote wilderness by air currents.

In the North, where food prices are notoriously high, beluga whales are a staple community resource

Eastern Finnmark, on the coast of the Barents Sea has always proved to be the cleanest of all areas of testing in the North Atlantic. But not so any more.

Plastic waste in the ocean is now so widespread it is polluting remote ice floes in the Arctic, scientists have discovered.