A major project to transport natural gas from the North Sea to Denmark and Poland has taken a significant step forward ~enviro energy Link 5 votes
Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits ~enviro Article 903 words, published May 1 2020 6 votes
About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece ~science Article 1001 words 8 votes
Norway has come under fire from environmental groups who accuse it of caving to oil companies over a decision to shift an Arctic no-go zone ~enviro climate change Article 715 words 5 votes
Construction of the world's longest immersed tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany will begin in January next year ~engineering Article 212 words 6 votes
Australian, US vessels in South China Sea as China flexes muscles ~news australia usa china Article 1160 words 5 votes
Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic ~news norway.svalbard politics Article 302 words 4 votes
More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America ~science biology.paleo Article 1062 words 12 votes
Norway is postponing a decision on whether to allow companies to construct a new subsea power cable between it and Scotland ~enviro Article 238 words 4 votes
Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor ~science biology.micro Article 484 words 8 votes
EU state aid regulators clear Danish financial support for a rail-road link between Denmark and Germany ~engineering Article 109 words 4 votes
Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s ~enviro climate change Article 548 words 8 votes
Sweden's external military intelligence service said Friday the security policy situation in the Baltic Sea region 'has deteriorated over time' ~news sweden russia Article 226 words 4 votes
Alphabet launches Tidal, a moonshot to save the world's oceans ~enviro climate change Article 335 words 15 votes
Helsinki has donated €50,000 towards Baltic Sea protection, for use in the new Baltic Sea Challenge campaign to help prevent plastic waste ~enviro plastics pollution.water Article 386 words 4 votes
Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans ~enviro climate change Article 446 words 5 votes
Sweden has become the newest member of the UK's Global Ocean Alliance, which looks to help drive urgent action towards safeguarding 30% of the ocean by 2030 ~enviro Link 9 votes
Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976 ~humanities.history Article 542 words 3 votes
Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic ~enviro climate change Article 591 words 7 votes
Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading ~enviro Article 1078 words 6 votes
Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into days-long internet outage ~tech internet Article 722 words 6 votes
Common gas market for Finland, Estonia and Latvia launches following the completion of the Balticonnector pipeline last month ~enviro energy Link 3 votes
When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer? ~enviro climate change water Article 4650 words 6 votes
Denmark plans $30 billion offshore wind island that could power ten million homes ~enviro energy.renewable Article 389 words 6 votes
Klitmøller – Welcome to 'Cold Hawaii', Denmark's unlikely surf town ~sports Article 1238 words 4 votes
Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch ~enviro sustainability Article 851 words 4 votes
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
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