Meet Kelpy, the deep tech startup swapping single-use plastics for seaweed
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Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
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The Great Southern Reef is an extensive and valuable ecosystem … that not very many people know about
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Controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing suspended after a whale drowns
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Octopuses may have vivid nightmares, video suggests
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The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
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Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
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First account of apparent alloparental care of a long-finned pilot whale calf by a female killer whale near Snæfellsnes, in west Iceland
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Excessive outbreaks of seaweed are clogging up our waters – now the algae is being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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OneWhale charity aims to establish first open water safe haven in a reserve for whales, including a Russian beluga that went viral on YouTube
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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Coral Vita aims to grow corals up to fifty times faster than in nature through land-based farms
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How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
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The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us
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Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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Freya the walrus sinks boats and captures hearts in Norway – enchanting but unwittingly destructive 600kg marine mammal has taken up residence in Oslo fjord
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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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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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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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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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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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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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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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The dolphin clitoris is full of surprises, scientists discover
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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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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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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them
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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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Meth addiction in fish poses threat to ecosystem balance, study says
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We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.
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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
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Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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England’s largest seagrass planting programme gets underway
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Satellite imagery shows northern California kelp forests have collapsed
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Once mysterious, ocean surface slicks are pelagic nurseries for diverse fishes
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An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices
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The waters around Tristan da Cunha, a remote British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, will become the fourth-largest completely protected marine area in the world
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Mutant crayfish clones take over cemetery after aquarium escape
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Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland
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Researchers created amino acids and primitive membranes by simulating conditions found at scalding vents on the ocean floor
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Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
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