Freya the walrus sinks boats and captures hearts in Norway – enchanting but unwittingly destructive 600kg marine mammal has taken up residence in Oslo fjord
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
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Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists
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Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
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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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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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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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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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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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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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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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England’s largest seagrass planting programme gets underway
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Satellite imagery shows northern California kelp forests have collapsed
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An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices
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Mutant crayfish clones take over cemetery after aquarium escape
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Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
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Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate
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Mexico finds 15,000 turtles in crates bound for China
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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
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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past forty years
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct
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The strange, uncertain fate of one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats
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Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths
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Twenty pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland
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Dozens of dead beached whales have been spotted by sightseers during a helicopter flight over western Iceland
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Retired oil rigs off the California coast could find new lives as artificial reefs
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A new survey finds that green turtles numbers are increasing in the Pacific
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How a drunken swim in Nevada's Devils Hole and a dead endangered pupfish led to a rare prosecution and prison sentence
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Radical climate action 'critical' to Great Barrier Reef's survival, government body says
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Thousands more fish found dead at Menindee (New South Wales) as locals fear there will be 'none left'
Thousands more fish found dead at Menindee as locals fear there will be 'none left' Here's the previous story about the last mass death in the area: A million fish dead in 'distressing' outback...
Thousands more fish found dead at Menindee as locals fear there will be 'none left'
Here's the previous story about the last mass death in the area: A million fish dead in 'distressing' outback algal bloom at Menindee (New South Wales)
This is now the third mass death of fish in that area in the past month.
The state government's response: Menindee fish deaths 'out of NSW Government's hands' says Regional Water Minister Niall Blair
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Cleaning New York's filthy harbor with one billion oysters
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A million fish dead in 'distressing' outback algal bloom at Menindee (New South Wales)
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The 'great dying': Rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says
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Palau to ban sunscreen products to protect reefs
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The plight of the North Atlantic right whale, a species with just 450 individuals left in its population, just got even worse
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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Can dogfish save Cape Cod fisheries?
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Great Barrier Reef coral recovery slows significantly over eighteen-year period
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Australian governments concede Great Barrier Reef headed for 'collapse'
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'Seahorse hotels' bring an endangered species back from the edge of extinction
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The Great Barrier Reef could be hit with repeat coral bleaching events every two years by 2034 under current greenhouse gas pollution rates, the Climate Council’s new report shows.
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Invasion of a river giant
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This mine threatens America’s largest wild salmon run
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Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life
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