Author: Micah Garen - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Hope Lies In Oceans: David Attenborough’s New Film Offers Warning And Hope

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By nearly every measure, we are heading for an unprecedented unnatural disaster. Life in the ocean is dying at an…

Whale-In, Whale-Out

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Will the economics of Icelandic whaling be its undoing? On April 11, 2025, Kristján Loftsson, CEO of Hvalur hf., was…

A Disaster Waiting To Happen

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Seyðisfjörður continues its fight against open net-pen salmon farming “The government said that they wanted to work for the people…

Whaling Is Back On The Table

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The government collapse was a gift for the pro-whaling Independence Party  The last weeks of the month brought an unlikely…

The Augury Of The Great Auk: The Discovery Of Man-Made Extinction

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This August I spent two days on Vestmannaeyjar documenting the annual puffling toss, where teenagers, mostly, seek out wayward pufflings…