The European Union has placed a “seal ban” which prohibits the import of seal products into the EU market. This greatly affects nations that have high Inuit populations which often rely on the seal trade. The Inuit nations call this act by the EU unjustified and cynical, according to SivuNews. Read the full story

“You could barely hear anything except Arctic terns before, but now you barely hear them at all,” says Magnus Jonsson, a farmer on Flatey Island off northwest Iceland about the local tern population in crisis. Read the full story