Notebook from the North

On a bit of a different line this week, we will be taking a look at some of the practicalities of doing scientific research, rather than what the research itself has discovered. It’s easy to think of scientific research being done in two ways- one in a high tech lab with fancy instruments and lots… Read more

Over the last 30 or so plogs, we have looked at many different aspects of life in the Arctic. However, they have all been a little biased towards life on land, so this week we’re going to take a look at the life under the sea! This will include microscopic crustaceans, jellyfish, whales, and a… Read more

I don’t know about you, but I don’t really know much about Greenland other than it’s not very green, has polar bears and the President of the U.S supposedly wanted to buy it at one point. This is odd considering it is a great big land mass with people and culture and history, so to… Read more

Nature is full of intricate, precise and beautiful patterns. You only have to look at the perfect hexagons in a beehive or the delicate structure of a spider’s web to see this. These patterns are made by animals, but even the elements have the ability to create some quite beautiful patterns too. This week we… Read more

This week we will be doing another spotlight on an Arctic animal, helping an overlooked creature get a little bit of attention and praise. This time round it’s muskox, the giant furry cow-like creatures that wander the tundra of the north. We will have a little look at their history, behaviour and some of the… Read more

By now most of us have probably seen a video about a turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nose, or dead whales with bellies full of fishing nets and plastic. Plastic pollution is a huge problem across the planet, and the Arctic is no exception. Even though there are only a few people… Read more