Watch this on video | Buy us a coffee: Chris / Henry\nPOLAR NEWSREEL\nAfter the 2019 Ministerial meeting could not agree on a joint ministerial declaration the Arctic Council adopted in Reykjav\xedk its first-ever strategic plan for the Council's work for the next ten years, marking the end of the two-year Icelandic Chairmanship and beginning of the Russian Chairmanship. // Scientists of the Norwegian Polar Institute and the University of Bergen research the world\u2019s largest creatures, blue whales and fin whales, and their exposure to a wide variety of chemicals during their cycles of movement across ocean basins. // Recently, the 2.000 square kilometre-large iceberg D-28, which calved from Amery ice shelf in September 2019, impacted ice shelves in the Queen Maud Land area of Antarctica creating 5 new icebergs.\nMARIO IS BACK\nListeners who have been following Curiously Polar for a long time have missed him, but after a well-deserved break, Mario Acquarone is back in front of the microphone. The three of us now regularly dive into the vastness of the polar regions again. In this episode we will introduce you to Mario in more detail and talk about what to expect in the coming weeks.\nThis is an episode of the Curiously Polar podcast\nwith\nChris Marquardt https://chrismarquardt.com/\nHenry P\xe1ll Wulff: https://henrypall.com/\nMario Acquarone\nListen to all podcast episodes at https://curiouslypolar.com\nAll video episodes at https://tfttf.com/curiouslypolarvideo\nFind us here:\nWeb: https://curiouslypolar.com\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/curiouslypolar\nInstagram: https://instagram.com/curiouslypolar