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At 7 o’clock in the morning on the first Monday after 20 September, it’s lobster premiere in Sweden – every year. A festive moment for many people on the Swedish West coast. Hotels and restaurants set up special lobster buffets and lobster supés….
Reportage and UW-Photo: Tobias Dahlin
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Fish act as a kind of guide, finding the prey and ‘pointing out’ the location to the octopus, which can use its flexible arms to catch the hidden prey….
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Editing: Ronja Arnold-Larsen
UW photo: Dr Eduardo Sampaio Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
They are everywhere, in the sea and on land, in animals and plants and in the human body.
Twenty years since the term ‘microplastics’ was defined in a scientific paper; the prestigious publication Science has taken on the task of examining where we are today and how we can tackle the growing problems caused by microplastics.
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Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
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We know extremely little about what the seabed looks like. Studying and mapping them is difficult, sometimes impossible and certainly expensive. But a researcher in Australia has used sea lions to help map large areas….
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Editin: Ronja Arnold-larsen
Photo: Nathan Angelakis, Roger Kirkwood
LATEST NEWS
2024-10-17
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Simon Stanford
2024-10-08
Text: Gustav Sjöholm/TT
Photo: Edmar Barros/AP/TT
Graphics: Anders Humlebo/TT
2024-10-01
Text: Gustav Sjöholm/TT
Graphics: Anders Humlebo/TT
2024-09-13
Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT
Photo: Søren Rysgaard/Danish military, Pontus Lundahl/TT
2024-08-27
Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Charlotte Graham-McLay/AP/TT
2024-08-20
Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT
Photo: Nick Perry/AP/TT
THEMES
plastics in the sea
Plastics has been a revolutionary good product in many areas, but equally bad when it pollutes both our nature and our human body. Today, microplastics are found pretty much everywhere on our planet. In the air, in our food, in our bodies, in the sea...
the outlaw ocean project
The Chinese fishing fleet is a great power on the sea. Fishing far out to sea where no country's laws reach, they are catching more fish than any other nation right now. And it comes at a terrible human cost...
ocean devotion
Many of us love the sea, the beach, the water and swimming in the waves, but there are those who care a little more than the rest of us. Those who, with commitment and passion...
the real rulers of the sea
The ocean's resources belong to all citizens. We want healthy seas, full of fish and shellfish. So how could the EU's seas be fished to the brink of ecological collapse? The overfishing is not an accident...
seal hunting
In an overfished sea, the seals have begun to move towards the coasts to look for food. Here they encroach on people's territory. From being nearly extirpated in the early 1980s...
warmer sea
The sea gets warmer - the species die. It's not just coral reefs and fish that are threatened as the oceans warm - it's all life. Not since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs...
Editorials/Debate
The conflicts within Swedish fishing are very fierce. Small-scale coastal fishermen on the east and south coasts face a small number of giant trawlers from the West Coast. I was looking forward to tough discussions and fruitful exchanges at this year’s Fishing Forum. But met with pleasant company in a luxurious mingling environment….
Chronicler: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Ida Ã…kesson/SPA
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29 February, 2024
2024-02-29
I am now forbidden to fish for cod and the pike has…
Chronicler: Peter Löfgren
Foto: Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
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23 February, 2024
2024-02-23
Biomass and biodiversity. Two rather dull and stiff words. But words often…
Text: Johan Candert
Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé
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24 August, 2023
2023-08-24
The EU’s and Sweden’s marine policy has for several decades led to…
Text: Peter Löfgren
Editors' Choice
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Erlendur Bogason considers Eyafjör∂ur in northern Iceland to be his backyard. He has dived here for over 25 years and has not just become familiar with the fjord and its inhabitants but has made some surprising fish friends.  The close contact that Erlendur has with Stephanie, the Wolffish and the other residents of this marine protected area is astonishing. It gives us a whole new insight into the complexity of fish behaviour and how they interact.  …
Reportage/editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, john Jonsson, Simon Stanford
A research expedition in the North Atlantic has found several groups of sperm whales along with many other whale species in an area where Norway wants to conduct deep-sea mining….
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christian Ã…slund/Greenpeace
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The film “What have we done?” which shows man’s ruthlessness towards our oceans was praised and named “Honorable mention” in the international competition DPG/Wetpixel Masters 2022….
There is one ocean.
Our reporting has no boundaries.
There is one ocean.
Our reporting has no boundaries.
Fishing
Humanity has always sourced food from the sea. And fishing is an ancient way of doing so that can be traced back to the early Stone Age around 40,000 years ago. In the last 100 years, fish stocks have dramatically declined in the Western Sea and the Baltic Sea. And in most cases, overfishing is considered to be the major cause. …
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Simon Stanford, Lena Scherman, Kimmo Hagman
Fishing for herring and sprat in the central Baltic Sea can increase by 139 percent, according to ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, which today published its recommendations to the EU for fishing in 2025….
Text: Peter Löfgren
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In a report from 2020, published by BalticSea2020, the authors believe that large-scale fishing in the Baltic Sea is neither economically nor financially profitable for the state. On the contrary, it costs us all big money….
Reportage: Peter Löfgren
Editing: Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Leif Eiranson
Climate and Environment
Our planet relies on the oceans as climate regulators. At the same time, the effects of our emissions are most evident in the oceans. Today, eutrophication, climate change, ocean acidification, and invasive species are some of the challenges the oceans face. …
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford
Blowing up the Kakhovka dam was a disaster – but now nature is taking over.
Let’s face it – this is not just about the sea, but about water near the Black Sea and that nature once again takes over where man leaves off….
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Ivan Moysiyenko
A research expedition in the North Atlantic has found several groups of sperm whales along with many other whale species in an area where Norway wants to conduct deep-sea mining….
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Christian Ã…slund/Greenpeace
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a unique and sensitive sea where organisms live on the edge of what they can tolerate due to the low salinity. It has also been called the world’s most polluted inland sea due to eutrophication and the chemical cocktail caused by human activities….
Text: Lina Mattsson
Foto: Johan Candert, Kimmo Hagman, Simon Stanford
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For an extended period, the cod population in the Baltic Sea has been facing severe challenges. Overfishing and environmental issues have taken a toll on their well-being, causing a decline in their health. Consequently, many of them have become thin, emaciated, and susceptible to diseases. However, a pertinent question arises: What happens when wild cod are given the opportunity to recuperate? …
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford, Daniel Hager
UW-Photo: Johan Candert
Edit by: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
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The Baltic Sea is grappling with a severe ecological crisis primarily marked by oxygen depletion, leading to extensive dead zones. Human activities, including industrial processes and nutrient-rich agricultural runoff, have fueled the growth of algae, contributing to oxygen-starved conditions. These anoxic zones threaten marine life, disrupting ecosystems and fisheries. …
reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman
International
Dive into the intricate ecosystems of the world’s oceans, their lawless stretches, and the extremities that teem with life, all crucial to our existence and well-being….
Text: Lina Mattsson
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford, Johan Candert
China uses thousands of workers from the Hermit Kingdom,
in violation of U.N. sanctions and U.S. law. Many at the plants recounted rampant sexual abuse….
Text: Ian Urbina
Photo/Video: Douyin, The Outlaw Ocean Project, Living in North Korea
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An exploration of the motivations and methods behind China’s growth and control overfishing across most of the high seas….
Written by: Ian Urbina, Ben Blankenship
Narrated by: Ian Urbina
Videographers: Ben Blankenship, James Glancy, Youenn Kerdavid
Produced & Edited by: Ben Blankenship
Co-Producers: Raphaela Morais, Adrienne Urbina
Motion Grephics: Drew Evans
Archivists/Researchers: Chloe Darnaus, Sonia Szczesna
Additional Footage provided courtesy of: GreenPeace International, Environmental Justice Foundation, ABC News Australia, CICC, CGTN, Natural History New Zealand Limited, Kinolibrary, Bloomberg originals, U.S. Navy, COSCO Shipping, Puerto de Chancay, Prefectura Naval Argentina, Center for Strategic & International Studies, British Pathé
Research
Fish behavior, toxic algae, and the role of the sea in climate. These are some of the topics that marine research can address. Diverse subjects, but with a common goal: to better understand what happens beneath the surface….
Text: Lina mattsson
Foto: Hans Berggren, Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Simon Stanford
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Marine Biologist, Dr Tessa Hempson and film-maker, Grant Brokensha, were part of a recent Manta Ray tagging expedition off the South African coast.
Mantas have an incredible 20 million years of evolution behind them, and we are just beginning to uncover their secrets and appreciate their remarkable intelligence. Both from personal observations and scientific research, there is compelling evidence that these creatures that have an unusually large brain in proportion to their size, are in fact highly intelligent beings…
Filmed and directed by: Grant Brokensha
Editing: Ruuan Botha
A new investigation shows that organic eggs contain high levels of several toxins and may pose a risk to young children. However, the production of conventional eggs risks increasing the amount of toxins in the environment in the long run.
– We need to put the brakes on (for PFAS). We should have done so the day before yesterday, says Petra Bergkvist, inspector at the Swedish Food Agency….
Text: Lina Mattsson
