Why does Norway want to extract seabed minerals – an explainer
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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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Climate change is changing the ocean’s color
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Fukushima contaminated water set to be released into the ocean
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To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world's most remote fjords in Greenland and Antarctica
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The world's largest floating wind farm is now officially open in Norway – and helping to power North Sea oil operations
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As offshore wind based energy production ramps up, scientists flag potential impacts, costs and benefits
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Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris
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United Nations humanitarian mission is attempting to unload oil from decaying supertanker in the Red Sea before the ship sinks or breaks apart
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UN Chief proclaims 'era of global boiling' as July set to be hottest month ever recorded
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'Could be a world record': South Florida ocean temperature hits 101.1°F
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Expert reaction to a paper warning of a collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
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The heat-resistant organism in antler coral may help it adapt as ocean temperatures increase
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Germany's MAN Energy Solutions installs world's largest seawater CO2 heat pump for district heating at the port of Esbjerg, Denmark
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Viking Link joins UK and Denmark power grids for first time – 765km high-voltage cable joins Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Jutland in Denmark
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Diplomats missed a key deadline while negotiating rules for deep sea mining, allowing companies to apply for permits before rules go into effect
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Analysis rate of sea level rise and flood risk
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Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly twenty-nine tons from 10,000 sharks seized
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Denmark delays man-made energy island in North Sea due to high costs – more options for better and cheaper concept will be analyzed
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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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Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
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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 under pressure to scale back fossil fuel expansion plans – campaigners say development of huge Rosebank field in North Sea would drive climate breakdown
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Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
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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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Project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea – Denmark is the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad
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'Plasticosis': A new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds
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Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
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Every few months, when the wind's blowing in the right direction, a bottle of air is taken from Kennaook / Cape Grim, at the northern tip of Tasmania, and saved for science. Here's how and why.
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Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic
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The artificial island of Lynetteholm is meant to protect the Danish capital from floods and provide housing – but critics accuse the project of greenwashing
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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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Helsinki is tapping an unexpected source of energy to heat its homes – cold water extracted from deep in the Baltic Sea
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Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon, gambling on desalination. So far, it is losing the bet.
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Baltic Pipe pipeline between Norway and Poland received its first direct deliveries of Norwegian gas – Danish terminal started operations following delays
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Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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Operator of Nord Stream 2 confirmed that a leak in the pipeline has been detected southeast of the Danish island Bornholm in the Baltic Sea
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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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Norway-Poland gas pipeline opens in key move to cut dependency on Russia – could be at full capacity a month early due to good progress on work in Denmark
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock signed a deal with Denmark to boost investment in hydro and wind power
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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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Greenland ice sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week – eighteen billion tons of water in just three days
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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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NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice
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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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