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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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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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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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
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Norway is vowing to help Europe turn away from Russian gas, but that's set off a political battle with the left-wing opposition that rejects expanded gas exploration
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Nurdles: The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of
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Bilge dumping: The worst pollution you've never heard of
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As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
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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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Denmark has authorised the construction of a new pipeline between Norway and Poland to reduce Warsaw's dependence on Russian gas
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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 'blue blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean has been slowing down the melting of Iceland's glaciers, a new study suggests
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Our reliance on fossil fuels is harming marine ecosystems - but the platforms we use to extract oil are giving marine life new homes
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Gathering storm: The industrial infrastructure catastrophe looming over America’s gulf coast
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Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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#TeamSeas seeking $30M for Ocean Conservatory
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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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World's longest undersea power connection was today switched on, allowing Norway and the UK to share renewable energy
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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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Was 2020 a record-breaking hurricane season? Yes, but. . .
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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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Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century
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Gulf Stream is weakest it's been in more than 1,000 years, study says
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Denmark's government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial 'energy island' which is to be built 80km offshore
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Hawaii is famous for its spectacular beaches. But over the past century, three of the state’s major islands have lost roughly one-quarter of their sandy shores.
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Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups
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Does it make sense to grow fish in indoor tanks? Inland farms offer an alternative to diminishing wild Atlantic salmon stocks, but the price tag is higher carbon emissions
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Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea – decision is part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050
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The waters around Tristan da Cunha, a remote British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, will become the fourth-largest completely protected marine area in the world
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How the waters off Los Angeles became a DDT dumping ground
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Environmentalists have held protests outside a court that is deciding on a tunnel link between Germany and Denmark – they say the project is flawed on many levels
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Gas hydrate dissociation linked to contemporary ocean warming in the southern hemisphere
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Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
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Tahlequah, the orca who carried her dead calf for seventeen days in 2018, is pregnant again
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