The Icelandic singer discusses her collaboration with Rosalía and how artists pick up on the environmental emergency

• Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly

Iceland’s fish farming industry is “a couple of wild guys who want to make money quick and sacrifice nature”, the Icelandic singer Björk has said before the release of a “lost” song to help fight the increasingly controversial practice.

In an interview with Guardian Seascape, she added that artists were often the “canaries in the coalmine” of environmental emergencies because it was their job to be sensitive.