For a longtime Arctic guide, once-pristine Svalbard is becoming ‘a rubbish dump’

Mats Forsberg blames the growing amounts of waste washing ashore on the Arctic archipelago on expanded fishing in nearby waters.

By Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer July 3, 2018
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“This is what I found during a short 200-meter walk along the shoreline of Sorgfjorden on the north coast of Spitsbergen,”Mats Forsberg tells the Barents Observer.

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