Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales
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Iceland's president urged to intervene over Europe's last whaler – conservation groups are asking for the decision to allow Hvalur to hunt to be put on hold until after election
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Why have salmon deserted Norway's rivers? Salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish's future.
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Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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Life on Europe's only open Schengen border with Russia – in the Barents Sea, Russia maintains cordial relations with NATO neighbours over fishing rights
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The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
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Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural Icelandic regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations
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Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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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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Instead of a field, hundreds of Danish growers now share patches of the ocean, growing mussels, sea kelp and more
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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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Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales
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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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'More masks than jellyfish': Coronavirus waste ends up in ocean
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The end of the Arctic as we know it
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Sea, sand but no sunscreen: Tiny Tuvalu desperate for skin protection
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Scientists get ready to begin Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup
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