Edinburgh-based Skyrora got its suborbital Skylark L rocket successfully off an Icelandic launch pad – but the booster didn't go far, falling into the Norwegian Sea
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Operator of Nord Stream 2 confirmed that a leak in the pipeline has been detected southeast of the Danish island Bornholm in the Baltic Sea
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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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Norway-Poland gas pipeline opens in key move to cut dependency on Russia – could be at full capacity a month early due to good progress on work in Denmark
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Denmark and Germany now building the world's longest immersed tunnel
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Two Swedish filmmakers have been found guilty of illegally disturbing the MS Estonia ferry, which sank in 1994 killing 852 people
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock signed a deal with Denmark to boost investment in hydro and wind power
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Instead of a field, hundreds of Danish growers now share patches of the ocean, growing mussels, sea kelp and more
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Greenland ice sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week – eighteen billion tons of water in just three days
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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As Europe searches the world for oil to replace Russian barrels, the Johan Sverdrup oilfield in the North Sea is helping plug the gap
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After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials
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What happened to giant hovercraft?
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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
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Norway is vowing to help Europe turn away from Russian gas, but that's set off a political battle with the left-wing opposition that rejects expanded gas exploration
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Nurdles: The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of
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The construction of two energy islands off the coast of Denmark is being sped up to help wean the country off Russian fossil fuels
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Bilge dumping: The worst pollution you've never heard of
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As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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Denmark has authorised the construction of a new pipeline between Norway and Poland to reduce Warsaw's dependence on Russian gas
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Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice
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NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean
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A 'blue blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean has been slowing down the melting of Iceland's glaciers, a new study suggests
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Three suspected pirates who were detained for six weeks on a Danish warship off West Africa's coast have been released at sea in a small dinghy
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Gathering storm: The industrial infrastructure catastrophe looming over America’s gulf coast
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Investigation launched for 'drunkenness at sea' after ships crash in Baltic Sea – one crew member of capsized Danish barge has died and another is still missing
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Construction work has begun on the German side of an underwater tunnel connecting Germany and Denmark – €7 billion project set to be completed by 2029
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Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
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More than just a 'mystery' train, the Orient Express whisked the elite across Europe in luxury and style
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Undersea rail-road tunnel between Denmark and Germany – Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link explained
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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#TeamSeas seeking $30M for Ocean Conservatory
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Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
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Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.
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Massive oil spill sends crude onto Orange County, CA beaches
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World's longest undersea power connection was today switched on, allowing Norway and the UK to share renewable energy
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SpaceX Inspiration4 astronauts safely return to Earth
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Solar domes could desalinate seawater at a commercial scale
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International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
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Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history
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