He was hijacked by pirates - and then mistaken for one. One man’s ordeal in the Gulf of Guinea, the world’s most dangerous shipping route. ~life Article 2586 words, published Nov 8 2019 7 votes
How the US betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster ~enviro climate change Article 5621 words 9 votes
Climate campaigners are taking Norway's government back to court to oppose its plans to open the Arctic for oil drilling ~enviro climate change Article 736 words 7 votes
The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure ~tech Article 2751 words 6 votes
Denmark is giving permission for joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to be laid through its territory ~enviro energy Article 513 words 3 votes
Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates – coastal erosion from North Sea winds threatened to topple it into the sea ~design architecture Article 402 words 9 votes
Vietnam bans Dreamworks' "Abominable" over South China Sea map showing Chinese claim to the region ~movies Article 455 words 9 votes
Sea 'boiling' with methane discovered in Siberia: 'No one has ever recorded anything like this before' ~enviro climate change Article 537 words 22 votes
The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic ~enviro plastics pollution Article 243 words 13 votes
Sweden's navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack – seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia ~news sweden.musko politics russia Article 661 words 8 votes
US Navy Surface Action Group consisting of a cruiser, three destroyers, and a helicopter strike squadron are operating in the Arctic waters surrounding Iceland ~news iceland usa Link 7 votes
Special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ~enviro climate change Article 2885 words 5 votes
A decade later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has left an abyssal wasteland ~enviro pollution.water Article 1640 words 11 votes
American becomes first person to swim English Channel four times without stopping ~sports Article 616 words 8 votes
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg nears end of her Atlantic crossing on zero-carbon yacht ~enviro Article 365 words 7 votes
Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea ~design urban planning Article 335 words 11 votes
Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics ~enviro plastics.micro pollution.water Article 657 words 9 votes
The North Atlantic ocean current, which warms northern Europe, may be slowing ~enviro climate change Article 417 words 6 votes
Who will pay for the huge costs of holding back rising seas? ~enviro climate change Article 2179 words 6 votes
Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths ~enviro Article 445 words 5 votes
Twenty pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland ~enviro Article 254 words 4 votes
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by sail boat to attend two key climate conferences ~enviro Article 313 words 7 votes
Researchers in Norway have found a freshwater pond on the seabed outside the country's western coast ~science Article 440 words 7 votes
Dozens of dead beached whales have been spotted by sightseers during a helicopter flight over western Iceland ~enviro Article 190 words 9 votes
The Arctic Ocean's sea ice hit record low levels this June ~enviro climate change water Article 838 words 9 votes
Finland to Estonia undersea rail tunnel project has taken a step forward ~engineering Article 513 words 12 votes
Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
The end of the Arctic as we know it ~enviro climate change Article 2541 words, published Jun 7 2019 10 votes
Kelp has been touted as the new kale, but it's been slow to catch on ~food Article 1015 words 4 votes
Retired oil rigs off the California coast could find new lives as artificial reefs ~enviro Article 1052 words 4 votes
Inside the long war to protect plastic: Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market. ~enviro pollution.water plastics.single use Article 3551 words 4 votes
Satellite images show no major damage to Persian Gulf ships claimed to be 'sabotaged' by US officials ~news saudi arabia usa iran united arab emirates Article 1226 words 5 votes
A new survey finds that green turtles numbers are increasing in the Pacific ~enviro conservation climate change Article 672 words 8 votes
Indonesia plans to move its capital out of Jakarta, a city that's sinking ~design urban planning Article 594 words 9 votes
An elusive whale is found all around the world ~science Article 807 words, published Mar 22 2019 5 votes
The seas are saving us from runaway global warming, but for how long? ~enviro climate change Article 419 words 5 votes
If sea levels rise and Pacific nations go under water — what happens to maritime boundaries? ~enviro climate change Article 799 words 9 votes
A grand plan to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ~enviro plastics pollution Article 6696 words 10 votes
The island nation of Tonga is facing a near-total internet blackout. The country’s only undersea cable was damaged during a storm. ~tech Article 488 words 12 votes