Why does Norway want to extract seabed minerals – an explainer
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Study: Air pollution prevents pollinators from finding flowers
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How deep-sea mining for EV materials could wipe out tuna 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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Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan
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As offshore wind based energy production ramps up, scientists flag potential impacts, costs and benefits
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New simulation based study warns against risks of ‘time-traveling pathogens’ in thawing Arctic permafrost
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A giant oarfish: The mirrored harbinger of earthquakes
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Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins
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Saguaro cacti collapsing in Arizona extreme heat, scientist says
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How far will salmon swim for a craft beer? In Oregon, researchers hope a surprising aroma will lure stray salmon back to their home hatcheries.
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The heat-resistant organism in antler coral may help it adapt as ocean temperatures increase
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Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly twenty-nine tons from 10,000 sharks seized
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Meet Kelpy, the deep tech startup swapping single-use plastics for seaweed
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Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
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The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
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Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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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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First account of apparent alloparental care of a long-finned pilot whale calf by a female killer whale near Snæfellsnes, in west Iceland
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'Plasticosis': A new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds
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US government approves use of world’s first vaccine for honeybees
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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OneWhale charity aims to establish first open water safe haven in a reserve for whales, including a Russian beluga that went viral on YouTube
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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Coral Vita aims to grow corals up to fifty times faster than in nature through land-based farms
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The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us
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Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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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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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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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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A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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Female African Elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching
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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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The life that springs from dead leaves in streams
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