A new exhibition at the British Library in London looks back on some 400 years of fascination with the fabled Northwest Passage and why people are drawn to explore the Arctic. The exhibition ...

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Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Aarhus University and the ...