New Norwegian vessel designed to remove plastic from Arctic waters

In this episode of CBC Radio’s The Broadcast, host Paula Gale speaks to Rolf-Ørjan Høgset, founder of the NGO In the Same Boat, about the new vessel his organization is using to help clean plastic out of Arctic waters. The Norwegian ship is called The Beast.

Also on this show, a close look at the health of Nordic shrimps.

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The CBC radio show The Broadcast with Paula Gale explores the ocean through a climate change lens. 

Related stories from around the North:

• • Canada: Arctic litter-monitoring project launches northernmost GPS capsule in Arctic Ocean
  • Sweden: Sweden generating growing amounts of plastic waste
  • Greenland/Canada: Arctic ice algae highly polluted with microplastics, poses food chain threat: study