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”
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Families of the more than 120 men killed when the Alexander L. Kielland oil rig capsized in 1980 were failed by official investigations in Norway, a new study has concluded
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Norway's oil and gas companies delivered record levels of natural gas in 2024 and will drill a similar number of exploration wells this coming year
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Russia launches a rescue operation after a storm damages two oil tankers in the Kerch Strait
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Finland first in world to ban cargo ships from dumping untreated sewage
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A marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean that began a decade ago killed some four million common murres in Alaska, researchers say
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Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining
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Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals – the WWF is suing the state in a bid to halt exploration
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Inside the successful, decades-long effort to protect the Humboldt Archipelago in Chile
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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
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Sweden rejects applications for thirteen offshore wind farms – government believes building them would have unacceptable consequences for national defence
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Climate scientists are urging Nordic ministers to prevent global warming from causing a major change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
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Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida with 155 MPH winds
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Historic US ship could soon become the world's largest artificial reef
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Tropical storm Francine forms in the Gulf of Mexico; Expected to make landfall in Louisiana as a hurricane on Wednesday
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas?
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A voyage like no other, from Norway to Canada through the Northwest Passage – to raise awareness of the six planetary tipping points in the Arctic
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Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
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Danish wind power giant Ørsted delays major US offshore project – news follows scrapping of two other Atlantic windfarms and axing of hundreds of jobs as costs surge
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How soon might the Atlantic Ocean break?
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What it's like to live in a Californian tourist attraction being swallowed by the sea
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The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move beneath the waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic
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Category 4 Hurricane Beryl will soon reach the Caribbean Sea
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Danish researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind farms far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood
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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
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Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
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Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
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Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the American South
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‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
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Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, says Swedish foreign minister
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A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing
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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
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How illegal fishing ships hide at sea
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Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
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'Cliff-like' collapse of critical current system more likely than thought: study
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Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
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Norway defends deep-sea mining, says it may help to break China and Russia's rare earths stronghold
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Norway's Arctic deep sea mining plan will inevitably sink – industrialising the ocean floor in the middle of a climate crisis is not only reckless, it's cruel
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Norway's decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists
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UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
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How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now.
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Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining
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Japan's 7.6-magnitude earthquake lifted land out of the sea, extending parts of its coastline by as much as 820 feet
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Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
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How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
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Norway's minority government and two opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic region
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Norway's new gas field highlights tensions as COP28 climate talks open – new North Sea projects jar with push to phase out fossil fuels
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Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities
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