‘Pristine’ 200-year-old Faroese sweater found at UK’s National Archives
Item and letter never reached their destination in Denmark because Royal Navy seized cargo ship in 1807
February 2024
Treasure of the Faroes: my amazing underwater drive through a Viking-tinged artwork
A tunnel has opened up more than 150m below the Atlantic, boasting a six-mile-long art installation complete with its own spectral soundtrack picked up by car radio. Our writer has the ride of his life
November 2023
Faroe Islands farmers charge a fee to access beauty spots as visitor numbers soar
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Too little, too late: the desperate search for cod babies
June 2023
Dolphins, whales and seals being failed by UK government policy, MPs say
Over 500 dolphins killed in Faroe Islands since hunt resumed in May
April 2023
No man is an island: life on the Faroes – in pictures
Andrea Gjestvang spent six years depicting the traditional males who roam these remote volcanic isles – while the female population declines
October 2022
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Atlantic overfishing was already a problem. Then Brexit happened
An investigation by the Guardian, NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung shows fish stocks being depleted in the north-east Atlantic – because there’s no system to agree on quotas
July 2022
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Faroe Islands branded an ‘abattoir’ as quota set for slaughter of 500 dolphins
After an outcry at last year’s killing of 1,480 white-sided dolphins, campaigners say new government hunt quotas are ‘farcical’
June 2022
Salmon firm’s plan to fly fish in its own Boeing 757 alarms campaigners
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Heat wave: how Orkney is leading a tidal power revolution
March 2022
Giving away the plot: Faroe Islands’ fake grave makes strange Bond tribute
People who’ve seen No Time To Die kept painstakingly schtum for months. But a new tourist spot has ruined our good work
January 2022
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Cutting the food chain? The controversial plan to turn zooplankton into fish oil
A budding industry that aims to catch zooplankton for health supplements and fish food has scientists fearing that its effects on marine ecosystems could be devastating
September 2021
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Faroes PM pledges dolphin hunt review amid outcry at carnage
Faroese have been killing whales since Viking times but many islanders now oppose annual slaughter
Horror at the Faroes dolphin slaughter is only human – but it risks hypocrisy
Philip Hoare
Our response to a mass cetacean hunt reveals man’s duplicitous attitudes to animals, says Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan, Or the Whale
Outcry over killing of almost 1,500 dolphins on Faroe Islands
Many Faroese horrified by what Sea Shepherd group claims was largest such massacre in the islands’ history
May 2021
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Cod almighty: how a ‘mythical’ Faroes delicacy has vanished
‘Green list’ guide: the countries travellers from England can visit
March 2021
We got rid of Covid-19 in the Faroe Islands through competence – and luck
Bárður á Steig Nielsen
The government decided early on that rather than influencing behaviour by making laws, we would instead issue recommendations, says Bárður á Steig Nielsen, prime minister of the Faroe Islands
