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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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 for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures
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Crew declared dead as lost Indonesian submarine found broken into pieces
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What a songbird lost at sea taught me about survival
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Friedman Adventures Podcast Special - May 19th 1986 rescue at sea
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century
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How coral atolls get their gorgeous ring shapes
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Once mysterious, ocean surface slicks are pelagic nurseries for diverse fishes
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Denmark's government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial 'energy island' which is to be built 80km offshore
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Hurricanes and typhoons moving 30km closer to coasts every decade for the last forty years
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Two documentary makers have gone on trial in Sweden concerning the illegal exploration of the 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster wreck
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Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea – decision is part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050
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An Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean
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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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Ocean sediments reveal nearby supernovae mystery
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Environmentalists have held protests outside a court that is deciding on a tunnel link between Germany and Denmark – they say the project is flawed on many levels
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A group of migrants rescued by a Danish tanker in the Mediterranean have been allowed to land in Italy after more than forty days at sea
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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