Dangling at the western edge of the European mainland and well above the Arctic Circle, Lofoten, which looks like a peninsula on the map, is actually a group of about 80 islands, with five of ...

Liam Kelleher and Alice Philips from the University of Birmingham carry out microplastics research at Ny-Ålesund in Norway (Credit: Iain Rudkin) Scientists in the high Arctic are lifting their ...