Octopus with a shell
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For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe
21 votes -
Coastal Peregrine falcons’ mysterious decline
13 votes -
Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm
37 votes -
For more than twenty years, scientists have followed polar bears in Norway's Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts
3 votes -
Global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast
6 votes -
Norway's environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”
16 votes -
Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
13 votes -
The destructive legacy of failed aquaculture
11 votes -
Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
6 votes -
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been released from prison in Greenland after Denmark rejected a Japanese request to extradite him
7 votes -
Iceland has authorised whale hunting for the next five years, despite welfare concerns
11 votes -
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
6 votes -
Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining
17 votes -
Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals – the WWF is suing the state in a bid to halt exploration
9 votes -
Climate change and fish farming are endangering the future of Norway's Atlantic salmon
7 votes -
Making farming better for bees: can we breed crops that produce more nectar and pollen?
4 votes -
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
5 votes -
Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, known for his decades-long fight against Japanese whaling, arrested in Greenland in July, has asked France's president for political asylum
12 votes -
Historic US ship could soon become the world's largest artificial reef
21 votes -
Hvaldimir, a celebrated ‘spy’ whale, is found dead in Norway – first spotted in 2019 wearing what looked like a camera harness
15 votes -
Why have salmon deserted Norway's rivers? Salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish's future.
8 votes -
Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere
20 votes -
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan in Greenland
33 votes -
Atlantic sturgeon are being reintroduced to Swedish waters with the help of scientists and advocates nearly 100 years after they died out in the region
15 votes -
Iceland's government has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year
13 votes -
Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
16 votes -
Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt by feeding on the snow algae which diminish ability of ice to reflect the sun
10 votes -
Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
6 votes -
‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
8 votes -
Big farms are under pressure to address the problem of dying salmon in Norway's vast fish-farm industry
9 votes -
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient
43 votes -
The fish doorbell
17 votes -
Hydropower can be an environmental and human disaster – but do the risks have to be so big?
10 votes -
Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably
25 votes -
How to move a 1,000-pound rescued manatee (swimming isn’t an option)
6 votes -
Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine
13 votes -
Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time
46 votes -
Norway defends deep-sea mining, says it may help to break China and Russia's rare earths stronghold
9 votes -
How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now.
27 votes -
Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining
14 votes -
Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
10 votes -
US government court filing promises to spend $1 billion to help depleted salmon populations recover
12 votes -
Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities
8 votes -
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
9 votes -
‘We felt so betrayed’: Indigenous tribe continues activism after decision excluding Morro Bay from US marine sanctuary
23 votes -
Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural Icelandic regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations
7 votes -
Norway wants to begin deep sea mining in the Arctic – here is why it's a bad idea
6 votes -
Why does Norway want to extract seabed minerals – an explainer
6 votes -
Study: Air pollution prevents pollinators from finding flowers
13 votes