Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a seventeen-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it
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Denmark has approved a three-year research project to test three floating photovoltaic technologies – will assess technical performance, environmental impact and economic viability
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For centuries, the tiny Norwegian island of Støtt sheltered fishermen from violent seas – now one woman is using tourism to revive it and offer travellers refuge from modern life
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Ineos has opened a carbon dioxide storage site off the Danish coast, as momentum builds in Europe for the fledgling but expensive technology
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Ocean death countdown
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Off the Norwegian island of Fedje lies a German World War II submarine believed to contain a huge load of mercury – why salvaging it has become a race against time
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A brittle star may be a coral’s best friend (2017)
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The Sea Library - borrow books about the sea from a library by the sea
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Cod fishing is back in Newfoundland
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Coastal fisheries are disappearing as oxygen depletion in warming Danish waters causes fishermen to lose their livelihoods
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Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters – government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice
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The marine sanctuary protecting the Gulf’s coral life
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Deep-sea methane filter develops faster than previously thought
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Norway will continue developing its oil and gas resources in the Barents Sea regardless of the European Union's support for a moratorium on Arctic hydrocarbon supplies
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Surströmming, the Swedish peasant food turned internet sensation, faces an ecological crisis
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Sea ice has been disappearing from East Greenland, allowing giant whales to take advantage and move in to previously inaccessible areas
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Come 2027, this whale-inspired visitor centre, designed by Dorte Mandrup in Norway, will be the perfect place to observe the majestic animals as they migrate
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After decades of drought, water is rising in the African Sahel
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Polish ultra swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres
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Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices
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Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
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International scientists are heading to Greenland on the UK's polar research ship RRS Sir David Attenborough to study how quickly melting ice sheets are pushing vital ocean currents towards collapse
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Arctic seabed mission documents fragile marine life threatened by Norway's deep-sea mining plans – Greenpeace expedition was livestreamed, drawing more than 450,000 viewers on social media platforms
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Surfers nicknamed it ‘Cold Hawaii’ in the 1990s, but this rugged coastline in Denmark is also becoming a hotspot for contemporary art lovers too
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Strange creatures cast ashore: salps
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The world has an anchovy supply problem
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First complete map of world’s seagrass offers warnings and hope for conservation
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Finland tests new system to help detect threats to subsea cables before incidents happen – scores of breaches in previous years have crippled critical underwater infrastructure
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Carcass of dead humpback whale, whose attempted rescue captivated many across Germany, has been pulled ashore in Denmark ahead of autopsy
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Timmy the stranded whale is dead. Please, let’s put animal welfare first and human emotion second.
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Divers have confirmed that a dead humpback whale spotted off Denmark is the same animal that spent weeks beached off Germany's Baltic coast – comes two weeks after contentious rescue operation
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A young walrus who became something of a celebrity as he toured the Scottish coastline has now crossed the North Sea and arrived in Norway
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The high‑tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas
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Norway doubles down on oil and gas production – energy minister says country has a ‘responsibility’ to address shortfalls caused by wars in Ukraine and Middle East
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Norway is reopening three gasfields that it shut down last century as demand from Europe for alternatives to Russian and Middle Eastern supply increases
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San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time ever
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Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
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United Arab Emirates says it will leave OPEC, a blow to the oil cartel
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The 18th-century English fake news that helped spawn an American sea
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Japanese automakers source 70% of their processed aluminum from the Middle East, but probably not for much longer
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Gold eyes worst month against oil since 1973; mining stocks slump most since 2008
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Mining the deep ocean: Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely
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Op-ed: The Persian Gulf oil crisis is a food crisis
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The billionaire ‘buccaneer’ braving the Strait of Hormuz
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Shadow fleet dominates Hormuz crossings as Iran ramps up bypass loadings
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This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left.
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17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels
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Human-driven global warming could cause the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a powerful ocean current system, and throw Iceland into a deep freeze
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Greensand Future plan to pump thousands of tonnes of climate-warming CO2 into an old oil field 250km from Denmark's west coast
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