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Turtle Rehab

Every year we're seeing more and more turtle stranding partially because of an increase in awareness but also because there are more extreme weather events,...

Reportage: Jason Boswell

Photo/editing: Jason Boswell

Foto: Two Oceans Aquarium: mass stranding, Devin Trull / Two Oceans Aquarium

Research

Coral Expert: They are Tough and Will Surprise Us

They have been blown up in nuclear tests and poisoned when people fished with cyanide. However, the absolute biggest threat to the future of coral...

Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT

Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT, Jim Maragos/AP/TT, Andrew Ibarra/NOAA/TT, David Wood/TT, Adam Ihse/TT

Graphics: Anders Humlebo/TT

Climate and Environment

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Mangrove Swamps are Collapsing

More than half of the world's mangrove forests are at risk of collapse - which would have major consequences for both people and the climate,...

Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT/News Agency

Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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Coral Bleaching is Spreading Around the World

Scientists warn that the significant coral bleaching, which the American weather agency NOAA warned about earlier this year, has spread to several places on earth....

Text: TT/news Agency

Photo: C. Jones/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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Attacks against climate journalists are increasing

An increasing number of journalists and media outlets covering climate change are subjected to various forms of physical, verbal threats, harassment, and attacks. This is...

Text: TT/News agency

Photo: Marcelo Chello/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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Octopuses Lose Vision – When the Ocean Gets Warmer

When we talk about climate change, it is usually about warming the atmosphere and changing weather systems, but the oceans are also affected and perhaps...

Text: Lena Scherman

Research

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Six gloomy climate records – and one glimmer of hope

2023 marked the warmest year on record with unprecedented climatic extremes from sea level rise to shrinking glaciers. Discover a ray of hope amidst these...

Text: Sofia Eriksson/TT

Photo: Natacha Pisarenko/AP/TT, Matthias Schrader

Climate and Environment

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Unexpected increase in shark numbers – ‘fantastic fun’

The aggressive bull shark has increased sharply in a coastal area in the United States. Scientists link it to rising water temperatures – and predict...

Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT

Foto: Keith A. Ellenbogen/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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Understanding Marine 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,...

Text: Lina mattsson

Foto: Hans Berggren, Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Simon Stanford

Research

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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,...

Text: Lina Mattsson

Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert, Tobias Dahlin, Simon Stanford

Climate and Environment

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Plastic caves will save seal pups in the Baltic Sea

Ringed seal pups become homeless as the Baltic Sea's ice shrinks. Now it is being tested to build caves out of plastic and plywood to...

Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT

Photo: Danny Gren, Yrkeshögskolan i Åbo, Johanna Hanno

Graphics: Anna-Lena Lindqvist/TT

Fishing

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Famine and storms behind sudden bird deaths

Hundreds of guillemots have been found dead along the west coast. A harsher climate and overfishing seem to be the cause of the birds starving...

Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån

Photo: Roland Johansson/TT

Climate and Environment

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Polar bears are at risk of starving to death as the climate warms

When the polar bears are forced to spend more time on land than on the ice, the risk of them starving to death increases, a...

Text: Lena Scherman

Photo: Simon Stanford/Deep Sea Reporter

Climate and Environment

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The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than scientists previously thought

Grönland tappar närmare 30 miljoner ton is – varje timme. Enligt forskarna bakom en ny studie kan det innebära att Grönlands istäcke har nått en...

Text: Paulina Sörlin/TT

Photo: Martina Holmberg/TT

Climate and Environment

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The sea – one of the most important issues in Davos

Awareness of the sea's importance to the planet has penetrated the finest salons. The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos brings together some of the...

Text: Peter Löfgren

Photo: Johan Candert

Climate and Environment

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Ocean Devotion: Mie Winding

Mie's research focuses on the evolutionary and behavioral ecology of marine zooplankton. Despite their microscopic size and remote habitat, Mie aims to enhance our understanding...

Reportage: Simon Stanford

Photo: Simon Stanford, Göran Ehlmé

Editing: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos

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Australia becomes climate sanctuary for island nation

Citizens of the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, which is at risk of sinking under the sea, will be granted "special rights" to live...

Text: TT/Nyhetsbyrån

Photo: Alastair Grant /AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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The World’s Coastal Cities are at Risk

Many of the world's coastal cities are not at all prepared to cope with changing weather conditions. This is stated by an international research group...

text: Petra Hedbom/TT

Photo: Jason Lee/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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Scientists are Raising the Alarm about Antarctica’s Shrinking Sea Ice

The sea ice around Antarctica is decreasing and is significantly less than what is normal for the month of September....

Text: TT News Agency

Photo: Tore Meek/NTB/TT

Climate and Environment

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New Warning: Earth, a “Multi-Disease Patient”

Humans affect the earth's climate and ecosystems to such an extent that we now risk the stability of the entire planet. That is the message...

Text: PETRA HEDBOM/TT

Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT,

Cover photo: Henley Spiers/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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The fish in the sea are shrinking but becoming more numerous

The fish in the oceans have shrunk - but at the same time have become more numerous, shows a new global study. This suggests that...

Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT

Photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP/TT

Climate and Environment

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Baby Penguins drowned when ice melted

In several colonies of emperor penguins, almost all the chicks died when the sea ice in Antarctica melted last year. - They probably drowned, or...

Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT

Photo: Peter Fretwell

Graphics: Anders Humlebo/TT

Climate and Environment

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The Power of Ocean Knowledge

The EU's and Sweden's marine policy has for several decades led to overfished seas. Several ocean areas are on the brink of an ecological disaster....

Text: Peter Löfgren

Chronicles

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Saving Seahorses

The population of seahorses in Ria Formosa in southern Portugal was probably the largest in the world. But in the mid-2010s, it collapsed, and 95%...

Reportage: Daniel Hager

Research

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Climate change

Turtle Rehab

Coral Expert: They are Tough and Will Surprise Us

Mangrove Swamps are Collapsing

Coral Bleaching is Spreading Around the World

Attacks against climate journalists are increasing

Octopuses Lose Vision – When the Ocean Gets Warmer

Six gloomy climate records – and one glimmer of hope

Unexpected increase in shark numbers – ‘fantastic fun’

Understanding Marine Research

Climate and Environment

Plastic caves will save seal pups in the Baltic Sea

Famine and storms behind sudden bird deaths

Polar bears are at risk of starving to death as the climate warms

The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than scientists previously thought

The sea – one of the most important issues in Davos

Ocean Devotion: Mie Winding

Australia becomes climate sanctuary for island nation

The World’s Coastal Cities are at Risk

Scientists are Raising the Alarm about Antarctica’s Shrinking Sea Ice

New Warning: Earth, a “Multi-Disease Patient”

The fish in the sea are shrinking but becoming more numerous

Baby Penguins drowned when ice melted

The Power of Ocean Knowledge

Saving Seahorses

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