Greenland’s Royal Arctic Line in Murky Waters Eight years of controversial reforms within Greenland’s publicly owned shipping agency have hit a rock: The CEO is gone and an official probe into the company’s affairs has been called.
EU President Expedites EU’s Arctic Policy President of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker now takes a personal initiative to push the Arctic to the frontline through initiating a policy paper about the EU’s Arctic priorities at a time where it definitely was not expected.
Plastic pollution increasing at the top of the Earth Increasing amounts of plastic pollution has been detected in Europe’s most northern Arctic regions. Scientists are registering high concentrations of microplastic particles not only in Arctic waters but also in the Arctic ice and snow.